Professional icon maker This web application allows creation of 16x16 icons (favicons) using simple drawing tools. If you require a professional icon with smooth edges, shadows, or other advanced effects, please consider using our shareware 3D icon editor.

Online fav-icon creator

Online FavIcon Maker
	- current color	Default colors: <- transparent color Custom color: #

How to use it:

• Select one of basic colors by clicking on a color square on the right side of the window.
• Erase pixels by drawing with transparent color (checkboard) or erase the entire canvas by clicking the Clear Canvas toolbar button.
• Select a custom color by typing its hexadecimal web color code to the box under the default colors and click the 'Set' button
• Choose drawing tool by clicking a button in the toolbar:
  • "Pencil" is changing colors of pixels when a mouse is moving over the canvas while the left button is pressed.
  • "Lines" draws a line from the point where the mouse button was pressed to the point where it was released.
  • "Dropper" allows to set current color from an icon's pixel.
• Create favicon from a jpg or png picture using the box under the editor window. (Alpha channel is not supported.)
• Download your new icon by simply clicking the 'Download Icon' button in the toolbar.

More resources

Find out how to modify your web pages to display favicons.

Download icons from the icon library.

Download RealWorld Icon Editor to create professional icons.

Important: This online icon maker requires a web browser with Javascript 1.2 support such as Internet Explorer 6, Firefox, or Opera. If you are experiencing problems, make sure that you are using one of the supported browsers and Javascript ("Active content") is enabled.

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Unknown author (2007-07-02): As far as I'm concerned, the app works brilliantly, and very intuitive. Pity my own artistic efforts (or ability to get a decently scaled-down file of the image) are so pathetic. ;) One idea: auto-switch to pencil/line/whatever-was-being-used-previously after using the 'dropper' tool, like most image editors do.

Vlasta (2007-07-03): Thanks for the idea, it seems simple and useful enough to add it in the next update.

Crash (2007-07-09): You guys are not getting the ide of this tool. This tool is only made for creating favicon files which are the small icon displayed in the IE browser. The icon has to be made in 16x16 pixel and therefore the large pixel size. If you want to be creative use another program. As the name of the app. says "Online fav-icon creator" it for making favicons. In other words the app. works as intended and if you cant see it its because you dont know how to use it :-)

payudara (2007-07-20): It's awesome. Thx for this free service. I can make icons as much I want anytime anywhere without installing anything. I hope there are more options to come like size and supported picture format.

NOTE FOR OTHER USERS: use JPEG OR PNG! try 16x16 pixels picture.

payudara (2007-07-20): Hi me again :)

I don't know if this is a quick update from webmaster but now i can also submit a gif image and see the result as i was expected.

Thx anyway. Cheers.

Vlasta (2007-07-20): The gif support is unofficial, transparent gifs as well as transparent pngs are not working.

gentsquash (2007-12-27): Thank you for you icon-creating service; it is intuitive and fast.

Your "Create favicon from picture" is useful. Would you
consider allowing it to upload ".ico" files?
Why? Well, I used your online faviconeditor to create several
(mediocre) favicons, and now I'd like to edit them further.

Ta, -gentsquash

Vlasta (2007-12-27): It will be eventually extended, but it is hard to say when ;).

MADShears (2008-01-12): I think these service like these are all really nice. Webmasters dont have to add this kind of thing. I dont think I would worry about adding a thing to upload from here for servers personally. Its a nice thought thoguh.. Hey, I look at it like this..lol Being a webmaster myself, I always have access to my sites if I have internet. so I recon I just rather upload them myself.

It's all good! thanks for the site, very usefull.

timtak (2008-03-18): It would be great if it displayed a preview of the icon at the actual ico size.

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