Web developers waste hours configuring dozens of favicon sizes and testing which version browsers actually render, while similar image artifacts appear across browsers, leading to inconsistent branding. IconMosaic automates generation of optimized, standards‑compliant favicons and image assets and injects a lightweight script that selects the ideal file per browser, guaranteeing pixel‑perfect display everywhere.
The favicon spec is a mess these days. The OG was 16x16 pixels, but now you're supposed to provide a whole slew of resolutions up to 192x192 and you can do SVG as well. And browsers have no consistency in how they pick the one to actually display.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Favicon#How_to_use
SVGs can define styles and element ids.The problem is if these same element ids and styles are used in different places in your DOM, including other SVGs.Our product is a bit of a platform with extensibility which includes icons for ui elements. It was very easy for us or our users to accidentally use the same style names or element ids when exporting from Adobe Illustrator, especially for icons which are similar to others and started as a copy.When using SVGs as a background it’s not an issue, but we want our SVGs to be able to have different colours be usable in light or dark mode which CSS
> browsers have no consistency in how they pick the one to actually displayThe same Firefox on macOS shows different favicons depending on if I'm using it on the laptop screen or an external one (probably because of different pixel densities). It's crazy!
Ah! It took a fair bit of digging to get there. Maybe I'll look into the firefox pipeline and make another post. In the mean time if anyone know the internals and how firefox does it, I'm eager to hear about it!
In my experience it works essentially everywhere to have a single png that's ~256*256px as a linked favicon, perhaps with a single .ico fallback.
Also the pixels were probably downscaled in sRGB gamma by JPEG instead of linear light, so the overall brightness will be wrong anyway, if there was lots of high-frequency content in the original.
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