{"id":177,"date":"2015-01-10T10:38:48","date_gmt":"2015-01-10T16:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chadchenault.com\/?p=177"},"modified":"2015-01-28T08:03:35","modified_gmt":"2015-01-28T14:03:35","slug":"create-a-multiple-resolution-favicon-ico-file-with-a-linux-bash-script","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chadchenault.com\/2015\/01\/10\/create-a-multiple-resolution-favicon-ico-file-with-a-linux-bash-script\/","title":{"rendered":"Create a Multiple Resolution Favicon.ico file with a Linux Convert Command"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I found these instructions for creating a multiple resolution favicon.ico file with linux convert command. A favicon.ico file is:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>(short for Favorite icon), also known as a shortcut icon, Web site icon, tab icon or bookmark icon, is a file containing one or more[1] small icons, most commonly 16\u00d716 pixels, associated with a particular Web site or Web page. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Favicon\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Favicon<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The commands come from a user cappi2000 from this blog: <a title=\"http:\/\/blog.lavoie.sl\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.lavoie.sl\/2012\/11\/multi-resolution-favicon-using-imagemagick.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/blog.lavoie.sl\/2012\/11\/multi-resolution-favicon-using-imagemagick.html. <\/a><em>Code entered into the terminal will look like this sentence.<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Install imagemagick\n<ul>\n<li><em>sudo apt-get install imagemagick<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>rename your source image (with a resolution of at least 256&#215;256 pixels and a PNG format file) to &#8216;favicon.png&#8217;. Replace &#8220;your.original.png&#8221; in the command with the name of your PNG file.\n<ul>\n<li><em>cp -av your.original.png favicon.png<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Run imagemagick &#8220;convert&#8221; command<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><code> convert favicon.png -bordercolor white -border 0 \\<br \/>\n\\( -clone 0 -resize 16x16 \\) \\<br \/>\n\\( -clone 0 -resize 32x32 \\) \\<br \/>\n\\( -clone 0 -resize 48x48 \\) \\<br \/>\n\\( -clone 0 -resize 57x57 \\) \\<br \/>\n\\( -clone 0 -resize 64x64 \\) \\<br \/>\n\\( -clone 0 -resize 72x72 \\) \\<br \/>\n\\( -clone 0 -resize 110x110 \\) \\<br \/>\n\\( -clone 0 -resize 114x114 \\) \\<br \/>\n\\( -clone 0 -resize 120x120 \\) \\<br \/>\n\\( -clone 0 -resize 128x128 \\) \\<br \/>\n\\( -clone 0 -resize 144x144 \\) \\<br \/>\n\\( -clone 0 -resize 152x152 \\) \\<br \/>\n-delete 0 -alpha off -colors 256 favicon.ico<br \/>\n<\/code><br \/>\nYou will have a favicon.ico with most well-known formats stored into one file.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Reference about favicon files\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/audreyr\/favicon-cheat-sheet\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/github.com\/audreyr\/favicon-cheat-sheet<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/codex.wordpress.org\/Creating_a_Favicon\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/codex.wordpress.org\/Creating_a_Favicon<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/demosthenes.info\/blog\/467\/Creating-Multi-Resolution-Favicons-For-Web-Pages-With-GIMP\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/demosthenes.info\/blog\/467\/Creating-Multi-Resolution-Favicons-For-Web-Pages-With-GIMP<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.catalyst.net.nz\/tutorial\/creating-a-multi-resolution-favicon\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.catalyst.net.nz\/tutorial\/creating-a-multi-resolution-favicon<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>instructions using the GIMP<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found these instructions for creating a multiple resolution favicon.ico file with linux convert command. A favicon.ico file is: (short for Favorite icon), also known as a shortcut icon, Web site icon, tab icon or bookmark icon, is a file containing one or more[1] small icons, most commonly 16\u00d716 pixels, associated with a particular Web &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.chadchenault.com\/2015\/01\/10\/create-a-multiple-resolution-favicon-ico-file-with-a-linux-bash-script\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Create a Multiple Resolution Favicon.ico file with a Linux Convert Command&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer","tag-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chadchenault.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chadchenault.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chadchenault.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chadchenault.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chadchenault.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chadchenault.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":197,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chadchenault.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions\/197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chadchenault.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chadchenault.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chadchenault.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}