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The Complete Favicon Guide: Sizes, Formats, and HTML Snippets
Dec 26, 2025 5 min read Tutorial
What Is a Favicon?
A favicon is the small icon displayed in browser tabs, bookmarks, and history. It's one of the most important branding elements of a website, yet many developers overlook it or only provide one size.
Required Sizes
- 16×16 — Browser tab icon
- 32×32 — Taskbar shortcut, bookmark icon
- 48×48 — Windows site pins
- 180×180 — Apple Touch Icon (iOS home screen)
- 192×192 & 512×512 — Android/Chrome web manifest
HTML Implementation
Include multiple sizes in your HTML head for cross-browser support. Our tool generates all the sizes plus ready-to-copy HTML link tags and web manifest snippets.
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