Is there a free and easy text-only favicon generator? There are numerous online favicon generators asking for a image+text to create a favicon. I am interested in putting only text into my favicon, probably with a choice of different fonts. Anybody knows of a a good online text-only favicon generator?
Also, any desktop solution that does not involve paid software will also do. Does anybody know of such an option (I use a MAC)?
A simple only solution is http://antifavicon.com/
Not the prettiest favicons, but very simple, with a retro look ;)
I have found one site which exactly does what you want, the site address is https://favicon.io/. (see the image below)
It can generate 16X16 and 32x32 favicon image. It can also generate a 1024x1024 png image. You can use this site to generate various favicon from the big image.
I don't know a good online one, but why not just boot up MacPaint and put some black text on a white background? You could save the result as an image in the right size yourself, or upload it to one of the generators to get the sizing and formatting done for you. Your font choice would be quite large, as you could use any of the free fonts available on the web.
http://www.animatedfavicon.com
With this one you can generate an animated gif of a scrolling text (and an icon).
It's very easy to use.
Rename the gif to favicon.ico and put it in the root folder of your webpage.
For the "no icon" part. Simply use a 16px white gif as "icon"
alt text http://www.animatedfavicon.com/iconz/5d7acd6919b25b7651ee9bd9fefbbb69_extra_animated_favicon.gif
http://faviconist.com/
It has nice font collection and simple color scheme.
Faviconist is a Favicon generator with a difference: No need for image
uploading or editing. Just provide a letter (or another character) and
a color scheme, and we'll make the icon for you. Click "Save Favicon"
to keep it.
Personally, I would just boot up some image editor and make a 16x16 png image, then use the png image as the favicon. It doesn't have to be an ico file, and even if it does just convert it using something (I don't know what software would do this on a mac, gimp maybe?)
No matter what it's going to be an image, but if you want the image to just be a letter or something you can do that.
I think this is the easiest way:
Open up Microsoft's Paint.
Type the texts you want.
From Paint's menu, "Resize" by "Pixels" to 16x16.
Save image as .png to get a clear background.
Go to http://www.favicon-generator.org/
Follow favicon-generator instruction accordingly.
Done!
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I'm looking for best solution how to implement .svg icons into web.
Basically, I need to implement just few icons, what I have in my .psd, so I can choose any format, but it will be nice to have vector so I've choosed .svg.
Only, the problem is that I need to change color of that picture and also I need to be sure that it will be supported on all major browsers, IE as well.
For now, I'm using tag < object > which works nicely, but I'm unsure about browser support and also I can't simply change color.
How would you solve this situation ?
The .svg icons are very small and simple, I've also thought to convert them into fonts or icons, but not sure about best workflow how to do it properly.
Also, I was thinking about using .pngs, but there is a problem with changing colors and of course "scaleabness", but if I will not find out anything, I will probably end up with this...
I personaly like working with fonts (like font awesome and so...), as they are scaleable, colorable.... and displayed everywhere
Is possible to convert and add these icons from .psd to such a format, that will be close to fonts ?
Thank you for your answers :)
Check browser support for the various ways to implement SVG at http://caniuse.com/
Common workflows:
Automatically process .svg files into icon fonts, usable in CSS, with Gulp
Automatically insert .SVG content into HTML as data URIs, with server middleware
Insert all SVG icons inline into a page and reference as SVG Symbols
Insert all icons into one SVG document as individual symbols, and refer to individually with svg 'use' - https://css-tricks.com/svg-use-with-external-reference-take-2/
So I've found a solution
I've generated my own fonts from .svg. As icons we're small, there we're no problem to work with them like fonts.
I've used
http://fontastic.me/
Very easy to work with, just upload your .svg, make some customisations like name of your fonts, mapping and add them into your page.
The best method is to use SVG code directly in the web browser, which is supported by almost all major web browsers. The SVG code can be easily customized with all of the CSS attributes, for example, you can use current Color for properties like fill and stroke color so that one can easily change the color of your free SVG icon from their CSS. This will also reduce the number of HTTP requests required to retrieve the image icon.
I just started to learn svg. One thing perplexes me is I find some site use svg/path to draw a text logo. Like this one:http://www.desiringgod.org/
The logo is pretty simple itself, however, the SVG it is using contain a horrendous <path> tag where there are lots of numbers.
I understand that with SVG we can scale the logo, but I don't see any difference if this logo is based on a .png file. So what really is the benefit?
Secondly, I don' think something like
<path d="M115.326252,8.93098333 L115.326252,16.3798167 L113.923083,16.3798167 L113.923083,14.96265 L113.878305,14.96265 C113.092947,16.0569833 111.560896,16.5939833 109.858654,16.5939833 C106.367752,16.5939833 103.855367,14.0609833 103.855367,8.63131667 C103.855367,3.20098333 106.367752,0.667483333 109.858654,0.667483333 C112.454152,0.667483333 114.454146,1.91331667 115.390858,5.21765 L113.771894,5.53931667 C113.007521,3.07148333 111.7296,2.12731667 109.943088,2.1273166 ....</path>
is written by human being. This must be generated by something, isn't it?
The benefits of using SVG logos over PNG logos are the following:
Scale to any size, perfect for responsive websites.
Look sharp on retina displays.
Don't lose clarity, except for very tiny sizes (same with PNG).
With PNG files you would most likely need to generate multiple resolution versions of the same image and hope that the original image is large enough to support the future display resolutions (8K for example).
And yes, the path is not written by a human being. It's a standard part of an SVG file. You could also do stuff like export SVG files as HTML5 canvas code with an ink2canvas extension in Inkscape.
Advantages of SVG:
Resolution Independence
Super-Accessible DOM Node-Based API
No Unnecessary HTTP Requests
Easy Interactive Scripting
Read more details on: Why Aren’t You Using SVG?
In here, I will describe some differences between using SVG and PNG from an application perspective:
SVG files are lighter than PNG files when deployed to your
application.
PNG is more efficient as far as UI responsiveness since the file is
already within your application, and there is no scaling needed, but it's heavier than your SVG file.
PNG gives a better focus to photographs or detailed images than SVG.
I personally use SVG for icons and logos and PNG for photographs or detailed images.
SVG offers a way to do full resolution graphical elements, no matter
what size screen, what zoom level, or what resolution your user's
device has.
So you write HTML? JavaScript? CSS? Good. Then you already know a lot of what you need to know to get writing SVG.
SVG actually uses an XML-compatible format to define its rendering shapes. Beyond this, you can actually style shapes in CSS, and make them interactive with JavaScript. Multiple JS libraries exist to assist you in this world, like D3.js and Raphael. Here's an example of an SVG element group (the Envato leaf).
The other benefit of SVG is,
When you use images in an html document with the tag, you are defining a file that the user's browser will request. This request will take up bandwidth and require more precious time to download. If your image is instead a set of dom nodes, it cuts that extra HTTP request out, making your website faster and more user friendly.
An SVG XML document of any complexity looks relatively archaic and complicated, and seemingly isn't nearly as easy as just using an image.
i am making a website where i want one huge image to cover the complete background. I have seen many websites where the images in the background look to be of very high quality and still the pages load really quickly. How?
for example look at this link http://g2geogeske.com/menus
how can i achieve images with quality like these without compromising with the load time. Also if anyone knows of any tutorial or site which explains this please post the link to thanks.
even after being so big its just 170 kb(backgroung in link).my images are at about 700 kb and still look of lower quality then the one in the link. Am i missing something. some trick or anything??
You want to know how to compress images? Go download a decent image viewer (Irfanview) or editor (Paint.NET) and go to town! The background for the site you linked is a 171kb jpeg file; that's peanuts for a half-decent internet connection.
usually when you save an image as a jpg, you have the option to specify a 'quality' rate. If you look at the image in the site you linked, the background image, even though it's really big, it's only 170K. To me, the magic number to save a JPG is 90% quality.
ADD: Also, if you use Irfanview, you can add a plugin called 'RIOT' that compresses images even further (I think you can also get it as stand-alone or something) http://luci.criosweb.ro/riot/
Does anybody know a open source/free, 32x32 or bigger, complete set of "office" icons for integration in a Rich Text editor - i.e. buttons like
Copy
Paste
Text color
Background color
Bold / Italic / Underline
?
You should look into the Tango Icon Library, it looks great and it's into the public domain (as noted in their FAQ).
The have the same icons in 16x16, 32x32 and 64x64 but they also gave you the svg source, so, you can easily get any dimensions you want exporting them with Inkscape
You can also use the LGPL Crystal Clear as recommended by cobbal.
have a look at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Crystal_Clear
32x32 or Larger
The Best Vector Icon Sets All In One Place
21 Best Icon Sets for Designing Web Apps
On 2 I think this one might be what you want: WeFunction Free Icon Set
16x16 Icons
You should be able to find icons to suit your needs here. I use this page as a reference all the time when looking for little icons:
All the Small Icons You’ll Ever Need by the Web Design Ledger
another great one that is not listed.
http://p.yusukekamiyamane.com/ is a free icon set with 3160 icons atm. they are 16x16 and some are animated gifs.
Some one in my team uses this. Ico fx. I have never used it my self but the icons always look good.
If your project is non-commercial, then look at this nice spherical Icon set.
If your project is commercial, I'd suggest that a hundred bucks or so would be a good investment :-) eg. something from the Text bundle at IconShock.
I get a .pdf complete with images, fancy fonts, styles, gradients and what have you. Basically it's handed off to me with the message, "Make me a web page that looks exactly like this." I've tried a few pdf to html tools and they all look terrible. I figure I've only got 2 options and i hate them both.
convert the pdf to one big image and use an imagemap to add the links.
the screen copy tool that comes with acrobat reader to chop the file up into it's parts (buttons, logos, etc).
She uses Quarks to make this pdf. I've never used it, but I hear it is very popular. Are these really my only two options? Someone tell me I'm wrong, please.
Grab what text you can out of the PDF and clean it up. Pull the PDF into Photoshop and slice out the graphical elements you want to use. Rebuild the page using the images and put your text in HTML format.
Make a slice of the gradients and use them as background images with repeat.
Try to explain to your client why the fancy font is unsuitable for this medium.
Edit:
If it's just going to be a screen shot, you might as well just put the PDF up in the first place. At least people can zoom in.
Do not use one big image map. The more content you can convert from image to text, the better (more efficient) your HTML page will be.
Chop up the PDF into parts. Make the logos, etc. images, make text plain text, and make buttons button controls.
Exactly like what Diodeus said except-
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Find the fancy font and check to see how much it will cost to license or buy it. Build two bills and send them to your client, one with the fancy font and one with a standard font. Then see if she wants the fancy font. It will show that you take your job serious and may get you less strict project conditions.
No they are not:
Adobes Online pdf to html service
or
pdftohtml