Introduction

Say you’d like a nice favicon, but you don’t want the hassle of making one. Favicodes is a service to dynamically generate favicons from unicode characters. (A singular favicode is a favicon generated from Unicode.) Favicodes can be further customized through GET query parameters. This makes it quick and easy for anyone to generate a favicode without leaving the text editor.

Examples

Each of the examples below is being dynamically generated by Favicodes:

Github https://favi.codes/fa/github

JavaScript https://favi.codes/fa/js?color=gold&bgcolor=black&fontsize=256&y=-8&size=224

Y-Combinator https://favi.codes/Y?color=white&bgcolor=ff6600&y=-20

FontAwesome https://favi.codes/fa/font-awesome?fontsize=256&color=349af0

Features

• Favicodes may contain up to 2 glyphs, side by side

• Generates png or ico output (png default)

• Font defaults to Google Noto Sans (Mostly Latin characters by default for now, all character sets supported by Noto will eventually be supported in all styles)

• Can also generate any of the glyphs from FontAwesome Free 5.8.1

• FontAwesome glyphs can be specified by hex Unicode code point or their proper names, eg. “f005” or “star”

• But wait, all characters can be specified by their Unicode code point

• Text can be resized, colored or placed anywhere on the x, y axes

• All font styles available for both FontAwesome Free and Google Noto Sans

Table of Contents

• Quickstart
  • Usage
  • Advanced usage
• API Documentation
  • Unicode Input
  • GET Parameters

Indices and tables

• Index

• Module Index

• Search Page