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IMAGEOPTIM COMMAND LINE HOW TO

In Terminal, type cd and drag and drop in your favicon folder. The savings you see are indeed the real deal. In a folder titled favicon, create your PNG images with the design tweaked to look good at each size:ĭrag and drop the favicon folder into ImageOptim for it to do it’s thing. The very popular Favicon Cheat-Sheet ICO File section will be your saviour deciding.

Use ImageMagick in Terminal to convert them all into one favicon.ico file.Ĭhoose the sizes you want in your favicon.ico.

Create PNG images for each favicon size in your image editor.

You will only need the plain ImageMagic installer, it should be up the top. There are a variety of ways to install ImageMagick, but the easiest is to use an installer courtesy of our Kiwi friends at Cactuslab. It really isn’t as hard as it looks, your second one will be easy 😉 Preparation The savings can be particularly juicy for icons containing multiple sizes, which is also best practice given the variety of ways favicons are used. The smaller it is, the sooner it can appear.

A pity since a favicon.ico file in the website root (still best practice) is one of the few things guaranteed to be downloaded by every first-time visitor. This is something very few people seem to do, probably because no single tool exists.

IMAGEOPTIM COMMAND LINE HOW TO

Learn how to manually create optimized website favicon.ico files as much as 60%+ smaller in file size without sacrificing content or quality. Here is a related StackOverflow question. After a few hours investigating I can’t workout why, or even with what versions everything worked. ⚠️ This article is outdated: For some reason the ImageMagick convert CLI no longer generates smaller.