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How to fetch a favicon

To fetch the favicon for a domain, by using curl and the typical URL:

curl -sSSL http://example.com/favicon.ico -o favicon.ico

To fetch the favicon for a domain, by using Google:

http://www.google.com/s2/favicons?domain=www.google.de

To fetch the favicon for an URL, by using Google:

http://www.google.com/s2/favicons?domain_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.de%2F

How to convert ico to png

To convert the favicon.ico file from the .ico file format to a new .png file format, we use the convert command that comes with ImageMagick.

 convert favicon.ico -thumbnail 16x16 -alpha on -background none -flatten favicon.png

How to create a srcset a.k.a. source set

To convert four file sizes, using our naming conventions:

convert favicon.ico -thumbnail 16x16 -alpha on -background none -flatten favicon-16x16.png
convert favicon.ico -thumbnail 32x32 -alpha on -background none -flatten favicon-32x32.png
convert favicon.ico -thumbnail 48x48 -alpha on -background none -flatten favicon-48x48.png
convert favicon.ico -thumbnail 64x64 -alpha on -background none -flatten favicon-64x64.png

To create symlinks with our preferred naming convention for scale multipliers:

ln -sf favicon-16x16.png favicon-16x16-1x.png
ln -sf favicon-32x32.png favicon-16x16-2x.png
ln -sf favicon-48x48.png favicon-16x16-3x.png
ln -sf favicon-64x64.png favicon-16x16-4x.png

Sprites

To create sprites, we use glue.

See the bin directory for the script we use.