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Emoji Favicon Generator

Turn an emoji or one to four letters into an SVG favicon, real favicon.ico, and PNG icons from 16 to 512 px. Live preview, no upload, no signup.

Emoji favicon generator

Pick a single emoji for the classic emoji favicon, or type up to four letters or symbols (great for monogram favicons like AB or Z).

Background

Transparent emoji favicons look best in browser tabs that auto tint with the theme. Pick a shape for a stronger app-icon style.

A small amount of padding stops the emoji from touching the tab edge when the browser scales the icon down to 16 px.

Written into the <meta name="theme-color"> tag and the manifest. Mobile browsers paint the address bar with this colour.

SVG favicon markup

Inline this directly, or save as favicon.svg. Every modern browser supports SVG favicons.

<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 512 512" width="512" height="512"><text x="50%" y="50%" text-anchor="middle" dominant-baseline="central" font-family="&quot;Apple Color Emoji&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI Emoji&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI Symbol&quot;, &quot;Noto Color Emoji&quot;, &quot;Twemoji Mozilla&quot;, &quot;EmojiOne Color&quot;, &quot;Android Emoji&quot;, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, Roboto, sans-serif" font-size="396" fill="#ffffff">🚀</text></svg>

SVG data URI

Embed as a base64-free data URI in HTML, Markdown, or a CSS background.

data:image/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20512%20512%22%20width%3D%22512%22%20height%3D%22512%22%3E%3Ctext%20x%3D%2250%25%22%20y%3D%2250%25%22%20text-anchor%3D%22middle%22%20dominant-baseline%3D%22central%22%20font-family%3D%22%26quot%3BApple%20Color%20Emoji%26quot%3B%2C%20%26quot%3BSegoe%20UI%20Emoji%26quot%3B%2C%20%26quot%3BSegoe%20UI%20Symbol%26quot%3B%2C%20%26quot%3BNoto%20Color%20Emoji%26quot%3B%2C%20%26quot%3BTwemoji%20Mozilla%26quot%3B%2C%20%26quot%3BEmojiOne%20Color%26quot%3B%2C%20%26quot%3BAndroid%20Emoji%26quot%3B%2C%20-apple-system%2C%20BlinkMacSystemFont%2C%20%26quot%3BSegoe%20UI%26quot%3B%2C%20Roboto%2C%20sans-serif%22%20font-size%3D%22396%22%20fill%3D%22%23ffffff%22%3E%F0%9F%9A%80%3C%2Ftext%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E

HTML head snippet

Drop this inside the <head> tag. References every file downloadable below.

<link rel="icon" href="/favicon.ico" sizes="any">
<link rel="icon" href="/favicon.svg" type="image/svg+xml">
<link rel="icon" href="/favicon-32x32.png" type="image/png" sizes="32x32">
<link rel="icon" href="/favicon-16x16.png" type="image/png" sizes="16x16">
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" href="/apple-touch-icon.png" sizes="180x180">
<link rel="manifest" href="/site.webmanifest">
<meta name="theme-color" content="#2563eb">

site.webmanifest

Drop this at /site.webmanifest. Required for PWA install on Android Chrome and Edge.

{
  "name": "Your Site",
  "short_name": "Your Site",
  "icons": [
    {
      "src": "/android-chrome-192x192.png",
      "sizes": "192x192",
      "type": "image/png"
    },
    {
      "src": "/android-chrome-512x512.png",
      "sizes": "512x512",
      "type": "image/png"
    }
  ],
  "theme_color": "#2563eb",
  "background_color": "#2563eb",
  "display": "standalone"
}

PNG bundle

Standard favicon, Apple touch, and PWA manifest sizes, all rasterised from the same source canvas. The first three are packed inside favicon.ico.

Add an emoji or text to render

Once a character is entered, every PNG appears here with its own download link.

How an emoji favicon works

  • The SVG file embeds a <text> element containing the emoji character. Browsers render it with the local colour-emoji font installed by the operating system, so an Apple user sees the Apple emoji, a Windows user sees Segoe UI Emoji, and an Android user sees Noto Color Emoji.
  • SVG favicons are first-class on Chrome 80+, Firefox 41+, Safari 16+, and Edge 80+. The ICO fallback ships PNG-encoded images for older browsers and for OS-level tile rendering.
  • The 16, 32, and 48 px PNGs are bundled into the ICO so a single favicon.ico file works at every taskbar, tab, and bookmark size.
  • The 180 px apple-touch-icon is what iOS uses when a visitor adds your site to the home screen. The 192 and 512 px PNGs are referenced by site.webmanifest and become the install icons on Android and PWA app drawers.

Tips

  • Pick a transparent background for the cleanest look in browser tabs. Add a circle or rounded background when the favicon will double as a PWA install icon.
  • For monogram favicons, two letters at 70 to 80% padding reads clearly even at 16 px. Avoid more than three glyphs.
  • The SVG output ignores the letter colour for emoji because every emoji glyph carries its own colours. The letter colour only applies when you type a letter or symbol.
  • Browsers cache favicons aggressively. After uploading the new files to your site, ship a one-line cache buster (for example, update the href to /favicon.svg?v=2) or do a hard refresh.

How to use

  1. Type or paste an emoji, single letter, or up to four characters in the input. The 18 preset emoji buttons load common picks like rocket, lightning, fire, or sparkles.
  2. Pick a background shape: transparent for a classic tab favicon, circle for a PWA-style mark, rounded square for an iOS-style squircle, or square for hard corners.
  3. If you picked a coloured shape, choose a background colour with the picker, the hex field, or one of the 12 preset swatches. For letter favicons, set the letter colour and adjust the padding slider so the glyphs sit comfortably inside the 16 px tab size.
  4. Pick a theme colour that matches your brand. The hex value is written into the <meta name="theme-color"> tag and the manifest.
  5. Click Download SVG favicon for the smallest, sharpest file, or Download favicon.ico for the legacy multi-size bundle. Grab the individual PNGs (apple-touch-icon, 192, 512) from the PNG bundle card.
  6. Copy the HTML head snippet and the site.webmanifest JSON, then drop the downloaded files at your site root.

About this tool

Emoji Favicon Generator turns a single emoji, symbol, or short string (up to four letters) into a full modern favicon bundle. It writes a self-contained SVG favicon that browsers render with the visitor's local emoji font, packages 16, 32, and 48 px PNG entries inside a real favicon.ico file, and produces standalone PNGs at 64, 96, 128, 180, 192, and 512 px for legacy desktop tiles, Apple touch icons, and PWA manifest icons. Pick a transparent background, a circle, an iOS-style rounded square, or a hard-edge square; tune the inner padding so the emoji stops touching the tab edge when the browser scales the icon down to 16 px; and set a theme colour that gets written into the recommended <meta name="theme-color"> tag and the site.webmanifest snippet. The tool ships a live browser-tab simulation (light tab and dark tab) and a 256 px preview of the rendered favicon so you see exactly what visitors will see. SVG markup, an SVG data URI, the head snippet, the manifest JSON, and every PNG download link are all surfaced for one-click copy or download. Everything renders client-side using the Canvas API and a hand-rolled ICO encoder, so the character never leaves the browser.

Free to use. Works in your browser. No signup, no login.

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