How to create a text-only favicon?

Question

Is there a free and easy text-only favicon generator? There are numerous online favicon generators asking for a image+text to create a favicon. I am interested in putting only text into my favicon, probably with a choice of different fonts. Anybody knows of a a good online text-only favicon generator?

Also, any desktop solution that does not involve paid software will also do. Does anybody know of such an option (I use a MAC)?

Answer 1

I don't know a good online one, but why not just boot up MacPaint and put some black text on a white background? You could save the result as an image in the right size yourself, or upload it to one of the generators to get the sizing and formatting done for you. Your font choice would be quite large, as you could use any of the free fonts available on the web.

Answer 2

A simple only solution is http://antifavicon.com/

Not the prettiest favicons, but very simple, with a retro look ;)

Answer 3

http://www.animatedfavicon.com

With this one you can generate an animated gif of a scrolling text (and an icon). It's very easy to use. Rename the gif to favicon.ico and put it in the root folder of your webpage.

For the "no icon" part. Simply use a 16px white gif as "icon"

alt text http://www.animatedfavicon.com/iconz/5d7acd6919b25b7651ee9bd9fefbbb69_extra_animated_favicon.gif

Answer 4

http://faviconist.com/

It has nice font collection and simple color scheme.

Faviconist is a Favicon generator with a difference: No need for image uploading or editing. Just provide a letter (or another character) and a color scheme, and we'll make the icon for you. Click "Save Favicon" to keep it.

Answer 5

I have found one site which exactly does what you want, the site address is https://favicon.io/. (see the image below)

It can generate 16X16 and 32x32 favicon image. It can also generate a 1024x1024 png image. You can use this site to generate various favicon from the big image.

Answer 6

Personally, I would just boot up some image editor and make a 16x16 png image, then use the png image as the favicon. It doesn't have to be an ico file, and even if it does just convert it using something (I don't know what software would do this on a mac, gimp maybe?)

No matter what it's going to be an image, but if you want the image to just be a letter or something you can do that.

Answer 7

I think this is the easiest way:

1. Open up Microsoft's Paint.
2. Type the texts you want.
3. From Paint's menu, "Resize" by "Pixels" to 16x16.
4. Save image as .png to get a clear background.
5. Go to http://www.favicon-generator.org/
6. Follow favicon-generator instruction accordingly.
7. Done!