One or two characters read best.
Shown in the tab preview and the web manifest.
Each size is drawn on its own, so small icons stay crisp.
16 × 16
Browser tab
32 × 32
Tab on sharp screens
48 × 48
Search results, Windows
180 × 180
iPhone and iPad home screen
192 × 192
Android home screen
512 × 512
Install and splash screen
Put the files in your site's root folder, then paste this in the <head>.
HTML
<link rel="icon" href="/favicon.ico" sizes="48x48 32x32 16x16"> <link rel="icon" type="image/png" sizes="32x32" href="/favicon-32x32.png"> <link rel="icon" type="image/png" sizes="16x16" href="/favicon-16x16.png"> <link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="180x180" href="/apple-touch-icon.png"> <link rel="manifest" href="/site.webmanifest">
site.webmanifest
{
"name": "Maple Studio",
"short_name": "Maple Studio",
"icons": [
{
"src": "/android-chrome-192x192.png",
"sizes": "192x192",
"type": "image/png"
},
{
"src": "/android-chrome-512x512.png",
"sizes": "512x512",
"type": "image/png"
}
],
"theme_color": "#2875c5",
"background_color": "#ffffff",
"display": "standalone"
}The favicon.ico holds the 16, 32 and 48 px icons as PNGs inside one file, which every current browser reads. If you skip the .ico, the PNG links alone work in all modern browsers.
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