Convert SVG to ICO for free and get a ready-to-use favicon in seconds. Pick the icon sizes, keep the background transparent and download a single .ico file. The conversion runs in your browser, so nothing is uploaded and there is no account to create.
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An ICO file is a small container that holds several square images of the same icon. Windows, browsers and many desktop tools pick the size that suits the screen they are drawing on.
Modern Chrome, Edge and Firefox can show an SVG favicon, but Safari on older systems, Windows shortcuts, bookmark tools and many crawlers still look for /favicon.ico. Shipping both files is the safest way to make sure your site icon appears everywhere. Search engines also read the ICO when they show a small logo next to your pages in results.
A browser tab needs a 16 or 32 pixel icon, a Windows taskbar wants 48, and high-resolution screens and shortcuts use 256. One ICO file carries all of them, so the right picture is used at each size without blurry scaling. When you convert SVG to ICO here, every size is rendered separately from the vector instead of being copied from one picture.
Windows uses ICO for program, folder and shortcut icons. Developers packaging an Electron, .NET or game build often need an .ico next to their vector logo, and this tool produces it straight from the SVG. Game launchers, installers and system tray utilities read the same format, so one file covers all of them.
Most online icon generators upload your logo and return a zip of files you may not need. This one builds exactly one .ico file on your own device.
Each size is drawn directly from the vector, not shrunk from one big bitmap. That keeps the 16 and 32 pixel versions as crisp as the small grid allows, with clean edges instead of blurry downscaling. The 256 pixel version stays smooth on 4K monitors and in the large icon views of Windows Explorer.
Icons must be square. If your SVG is wider or taller, it is scaled to fit and centred with transparent space around it, so nothing is cropped or stretched. You can also untick Transparent and fill the square with a colour.
The SVG never leaves your browser and the ICO is saved directly to your downloads folder. There is no sign-up, no watermark and no daily limit, so you can try as many variations of your logo as you like until the tab icon looks right.
From vector logo to finished favicon takes well under a minute, and the steps are the same on every computer or phone.
Drop an .svg file of up to 10 MB onto the box above, or click Choose SVG. A square-ish logo or symbol gives the best result at tiny sizes.
16, 32, 48 and 256 pixels are selected by default, which covers browser tabs, Windows and high-resolution screens. Untick any size you do not need to make the file smaller.
Click Convert and download ICO. Rename the file to favicon.ico if you are using it for a website, and upload it to the root folder of your site.
A favicon is shown at the size of a fingernail, so the design matters more than the converter settings.
Thin lines, small text and fine detail disappear at 16 pixels. Use a bold symbol or a single letter from your logo rather than the full wordmark, and check the 16 px preview in a real browser tab. Leave a little padding around the symbol so it does not touch the edges of the tab.
Link the SVG as a favicon for modern browsers and keep favicon.ico in your site root for everything else. In your page head, add a link with rel="icon" and type="image/svg+xml", and browsers that cannot read it fall back to the ICO.
If your logo exists only as a PNG or JPG, our AI PNG to SVG converter turns it into a clean vector first. Then come back here to build a sharp multi-size icon from it.
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