Michael Posted October 16, 2015 Share Posted October 16, 2015 I'm working on web design a lot and I love Affinity Designer. This week I had to create an icon (favicon to be precise), which I obviously designed in Designer. So far so good, but there seem to be no way of exporting an image as *.ico. Are there any plans for adding support for ico files? malayali, dirkus, wtrmlnjuc and 16 others 18 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Posted October 27, 2015 Author Share Posted October 27, 2015 Seriously? Nobody uses *.ico files anymore? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
velarde Posted October 28, 2015 Share Posted October 28, 2015 Hello Michael... It would be nice to have an ico export or the ability to use external plugins. In Photoshop i use the telegraphic plugin to do it. Don't know if Affinity Photo will accept Photoshop plugins... To tell you the truth in the last year working only with Wordpress, my Theme accepts a gif file for the favicon and Wordpress in the latest update accepts gifs, jpg or jpg to create site icons. Sometimes when I remember i still create the ico file and put it in the root folder (15 years habits are hard to forget) but have found it's now not necessary for the sites I develop... samramsan 1 Quote ------------------------ Fernando Velarde www.velarde.com Instagram.com/soyfervelarde Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VIPStephan Posted October 28, 2015 Share Posted October 28, 2015 Also, there are many online ico generators where you can just upload any format (PNG, JPEG, GIF, …) and it will make an ICO file out of it (and even other variants like app icons). It’s an additional task but I don’t suppose you’re creating favicons in industrial scales, so for the odd favicon it may be fine to just use these and not bother the developers with this function. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anon1 Posted October 28, 2015 Share Posted October 28, 2015 On the other hand - if it's in an online tool it might not be to complex ;) - they'll make their decisions :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aitte Posted October 29, 2015 Share Posted October 29, 2015 http://tools.dynamicdrive.com/favicon/ Or head <link> Tag to use favicon.png instead Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Posted October 29, 2015 Author Share Posted October 29, 2015 PNG is not supported but it's not supported by IE browsers older than IE11 and some other browsers. I found IconFly which looks like a good software for generating all types of icons. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmi Posted November 20, 2015 Share Posted November 20, 2015 + 1 for export in format .ico directly in Affinity designer and Photo SirDragonDrop and angelhdz12 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sflomenb Posted August 11, 2016 Share Posted August 11, 2016 +1, would definitely want this. dirkus and SirDragonDrop 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Checkmate Posted August 13, 2016 Share Posted August 13, 2016 I agree with this request. PNG favicons work in some cases but not all. The Android Chrome Browser for instance shows a site icon in the 'recent sites' starting screen, but only if this is an ICO file. For now though I just use IcoFX Portable, which is free and very feature rich. Alfred and softsound 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted August 13, 2016 Share Posted August 13, 2016 For now though I just use IcoFX Portable, which is free and very feature rich. Thanks for that. I knew of IcoFX as a paid app, but I wasn't aware that there's a free portable version. Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrej7 Posted January 3, 2017 Share Posted January 3, 2017 Hello everybody, Using just PNG or GIF might seems as easy and OK option but if you want BEST results you need to have separate image for each scale of the icon, since in some cases the icons are very small and you really have to craft those image on the pixel level to make them crisp and clean. You cannot just resample the same image, that way you can get pretty blurry or aliased icons. So the ICO is the must if you are concerned about best results. I hope Affinity will get this feature soon, so we can export everything in the batch without having some special custom steps in production to construct ICO files manually. SirDragonDrop, Campfool, Alfred and 2 others 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fchen Posted January 31, 2017 Share Posted January 31, 2017 +1 SirDragonDrop 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darrenhalprin Posted March 2, 2017 Share Posted March 2, 2017 I use Icon Slate for Mac. https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/icon-slate/id439697913?mt=12It'll make .ico files with all of the sizes required. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
My1 Posted May 17, 2017 Share Posted May 17, 2017 Also, there are many online ico generators where you can just upload any format (PNG, JPEG, GIF, …) and it will make an ICO file out of it (and even other variants like app icons). It’s an additional task but I don’t suppose you’re creating favicons in industrial scales, so for the odd favicon it may be fine to just use these and not bother the developers with this function. not a very good Idea. The point of affinity designer is the vector environment meaning you can scale this thing without problems up to infinity if you like, and since good .ico files usually have multiple sizes, using a raster image isnt well, the best Idea. if you can just let the export persona deal with the scaling for the ico files, that would be long story short, awesome. SirDragonDrop 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjvela82 Posted May 23, 2017 Share Posted May 23, 2017 icofx portable download no longer free, installs as trials. Any other utilities that work great for Windows? I was expecting to find a huge list of exportable options in the persona view as the first time I have to work on a big artboard set and was disappointed not to find ICO as an option. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peregrin Posted July 22, 2017 Share Posted July 22, 2017 I definitely think Affinity Designer should be able to export to .ico format—I can't believe it can't do it, as many freeware apps I've tried can. I'm just glad .ico files don't factor much into my work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lulie Posted July 24, 2017 Share Posted July 24, 2017 +1 SirDragonDrop 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pheller Posted July 29, 2017 Share Posted July 29, 2017 +1 SirDragonDrop 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirkus Posted August 24, 2017 Share Posted August 24, 2017 +1 SirDragonDrop 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VIPStephan Posted August 24, 2017 Share Posted August 24, 2017 On 5/17/2017 at 11:21 AM, My1 said: not a very good Idea. The point of affinity designer is the vector environment meaning you can scale this thing without problems up to infinity if you like, and since good .ico files usually have multiple sizes, using a raster image isnt well, the best Idea. if you can just let the export persona deal with the scaling for the ico files, that would be long story short, awesome. Sorry for the late response but I only noticed it just now. What you’re saying doesn’t make any sense. An ICO file is just a raster graphic as well (and an outdated format, for that matter). You can export your vector as PNG and, as I said, use an online converter for the odd ICO you need. There is absolutely no need for multiple sizes of an ICO file because that’s a proprietary format by Microsoft and only really needed in (equally outdated) MS applications/OSs. If we’re talking about favicons for browsers there is ever only one size used, and that is 16×16px. Modern browsers/applications use more modern file formats like PNG (I think some even SVG) and these can be used in different sizes. My conclustion: Don’t bother about ICO favicons anymore unless you’re supporting outdated browsers/applications. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted August 24, 2017 Share Posted August 24, 2017 5 hours ago, VIPStephan said: My conclustion: Don’t bother about ICO favicons anymore unless you’re supporting outdated browsers/applications. Or outdated operating systems? On Windows, collections of icons are often stored in DLL files, but ICO files are still widely used. SrPx 1 Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skappley Posted September 19, 2017 Share Posted September 19, 2017 +1 I'd also love to be able to export .ico files directly from Affinity Designer. SirDragonDrop and Frozen Death Knight 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mojo Posted April 13, 2018 Share Posted April 13, 2018 +1 ... I would like export to windows icons too! SirDragonDrop 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
horz Posted April 16, 2018 Share Posted April 16, 2018 +1 yes please! mainly for Windows icons. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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