Generates all necessary favicons for your website. This includes iOS Safari, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Windows 8 and 10, and possibly some other browsers.

Getting Started

To get started with favicon generator you need to make sure ImageMagick and the latest GNU make software are installed and present in your PATH environment variable.

Configuration

By default, makefile uses convert file of ImageMagick software, but you can change that by specifying a new name as a parameter for make

make CC=<executable name>

or by changing the following line in a makefile

CC = magick

Also, the default image filename make is looking for is source.png, and you can change that either passing the new filename as a parameter

make FILE=<image filename>

or by changing the following line

FILE ?= <image filename>

Using bash

You use bash script generate.sh to use the program anywhere on your system. First of, you have to areat a symbolic link to an executable using the following command

$ ln -s <path to program>/generate.sh ~/.local/bin/webicongen
# example: ln -s ~/Programs/Favicons_generation/generate.sh ~/.local/bin/webicongen

then you can use it in such a way

$ webicongen <image> <output dir>

The output directory will be created automatically.

Usage

After everything is configured, simply place your image in the same directory as makefile, and then simply run make. It will generate the following directory structure

dist/
├── public
│   ├── apple-touch-icon.png
│   ├── apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png
│   ├── favicon.ico
│   ├── icons
│   │   ├── android-chrome-192x192.png
│   │   ├── android-chrome-512x512.png
│   │   ├── apple-touch-icon-114x114.png
│   │   ├── apple-touch-icon-120x120.png
│   │   ├── apple-touch-icon-144x144.png
│   │   ├── apple-touch-icon-152x152.png
│   │   ├── apple-touch-icon-57x57.png
│   │   ├── apple-touch-icon-60x60.png
│   │   ├── apple-touch-icon-72x72.png
│   │   ├── apple-touch-icon-76x76.png
│   │   ├── apple-touch-icon.png
│   │   ├── favicon-128x128.png
│   │   ├── favicon-16x16.png
│   │   ├── favicon-192x192.png
│   │   ├── favicon-196x196.png
│   │   ├── favicon-228x228.png
│   │   ├── favicon-32x32.png
│   │   ├── favicon-48x48.png
│   │   ├── favicon-57x57.png
│   │   ├── favicon-76x76.png
│   │   ├── favicon-96x96.png
│   │   ├── ieconfig.xml
│   │   ├── mstile-144x144.png
│   │   ├── mstile-large.png
│   │   ├── mstile-medium.png
│   │   ├── mstile-small.png
│   │   └── mstile-wide.png
│   └── manifest.json
└── source.html

source.html contains HTML code that needs to be pasted in your document's head.

public folder must be the same as your project's public folder, you can simply copy-paste it into your project (make sure you don't have one of these generated files already in your project, such as manifest.json).

Acknowledgements

I would love to hear any ideas or issues regarding this makefile. Make sure to create an issue or a pull request.

You can also send me an email to stuzer05 at gmail.com