Icon forge

No. Decoding, embedding and encoding all run in the browser canvas and the page has no file endpoint — open the Network panel: apart from the page’s own static assets, nothing carries your image.

No. The minimum is favicon.ico (legacy clients ask for nothing else) plus one PWA icon (192 or 512, which is what installability checks). Add whatever else matches the platforms you target. The iOS home-screen group has 4 sizes (180 / 167 / 152 / 120); for iPhone only, 180 is enough.

Favicons are among the most stubborn caches on the web, often outliving the HTML that references them. Hard-reload locally (⌘/Ctrl + Shift + R); in production you also wait out both the CDN and the browser cache. To verify immediately, append ?v=2 to the link href — a new URL forces a refetch. None of this is about the files you generated.

Yes, and you do not need to split anything. favicon.ico covers legacy clients that request /favicon.ico directly, and it already embeds 16 / 32 / 48, so the browser picks by display density; the PNGs are explicit declarations for modern browsers and feed readers.

Because those two files are bitmaps embedded in SVG, not true vectors. A bitmap cannot be converted to a vector — traced paths at 16px are pure noise, so honest embedding is better. They exist so filenames and references line up; for production, have a designer export a real vector SVG over the same name.

A 1024 × 1024 square logo covers the largest output exactly. Non-square works too: it is embedded proportionally in the centre of the canvas with padding on the short axis, never stretched, and the padding is controlled by the inset slider.

That size’s canvas exceeds the usable area of your source, so those pixels can only be interpolated up and will look soft — the problem is the input, not the export. Either supply a larger source, or turn on “no upscale” to embed native pixels and see the pixel grid instead of a blur.

It always was. The 512 size exports a square canvas and the platform applies the circle after upload. If you set the shape to circle, the exported PNG has transparent corners, which some avatar slots fill with white or black — when in doubt keep it square.

It recomputes, but coalesced: it renders once you stop, and a further change cancels the previous run. Old results stay on screen during a re-render and are swapped in atomically at the end, so dragging never collapses the page into skeletons.

A README.txt: source name and dimensions, the crop region if there was one, this run’s render parameters (shape / inset / background / transparency), the full file list and both snippets. A colleague can pick the bundle up without asking you anything. The archive is named like icons-20261024-1208.zip, with a local timestamp.