npm-icon-gen

Generate an icon files from the SVG or PNG files.

Support formats

Supported the output format of the icon are following.

| Platform | Icon | | -------: | ----------------------------------- | | Windows | app.ico or specified name. | | macOS | app.icns or specified name. | | Favicon | favicon.ico and favicon-XX.png. |

Installation

$ npm install icon-gen

Usage

SVG and PNG are automatically selected from the input path. If the path indicates a file SVG, if it is a directory it will be a PNG folder.

SVG

SVG files are rendering to PNG file in svg2png. Rendering files is output to a temporary directory of the each OS.

Rendering of svg2png is run by phantomjs. Please use the PNG directory If the rendering quality there is a problem.

const icongen = require('icon-gen')

icongen('./sample.svg', './icons', { report: true })
  .then((results) => {
    console.log(results)
  })
  .catch((err) => {
    console.error(err)
  })

PNG

Generate an icon files from the directory of PNG files.

const icongen = require('icon-gen');

icongen('./images', './icons', , { report: true })
.then((results) => {
  console.log(results);
} )
.catch((err) => {
  console.error(err);
});

Required PNG files is below. Favicon outputs both the ICO and PNG files (see: audreyr/favicon-cheat-sheet).

| Name | Size | ICO | ICNS | Fav ICO | Fav PNG | | -------: | --------: | :------: | :------: | :------: | :------: | | 16.png | 16x16 | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | | | 24.png | 24x24 | ✔ | | ✔ | | | 32.png | 32x32 | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | | 48.png | 48x48 | ✔ | | ✔ | | | 57.png | 57x57 | | | | ✔ | | 64.png | 64x64 | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | | | 72.png | 72x72 | | | | ✔ | | 96.png | 96x96 | | | | ✔ | | 120.png | 120x120 | | | | ✔ | | 128.png | 128x128 | ✔ | ✔ | | ✔ | | 144.png | 144x144 | | | | ✔ | | 152.png | 152x152 | | | | ✔ | | 195.png | 195x195 | | | | ✔ | | 228.png | 228x228 | | | | ✔ | | 256.png | 256x256 | ✔ | ✔ | | | | 512.png | 512x512 | | ✔ | | | | 1024.png | 1024x1024 | | ✔ | | |

To make it a special size configuration, please specify with ico,icns and favicon options.

Node API

icongen

icongen is promisify function.

icongen(src, dest[, options])

| Name | Type | Description | | ------- | -------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | src | String | Path of the SVG file or PNG files directory that becomes the source. | | dest | String | Destination directory path. | | options | Object | see: Options. |

Options:

const options = {
  report: true,
  ico: {
    name: 'app',
    sizes: [16, 24, 32, 48, 64, 128, 256]
  },
  icns: {
    name: 'app',
    sizes: [16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, 1024]
  },
  favicon: {
    name: 'favicon-',
    pngSizes: [32, 57, 72, 96, 120, 128, 144, 152, 195, 228],
    icoSizes: [16, 24, 32, 48, 64]
  }
}

If all image options (ico,icns, favicon) are omitted, all images are output with their default settings.

// Output an all images with default settings
const options = {
  report: true
}

If individual image option is omitted, default setting is used. If there is a format that you do not want to output, specify others and omit that image.

// Without ICNS
const options = {
  report: true,
  ico: {}
  favicon: {}
}

| Name | Type | Description | | ------- | --------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------ | | report | Boolean | Display the process reports. Default is false, disable a report. | | ico | Object | Output setting of ICO file. | | icns | Object | Output setting of ICNS file. | | favicon | Object | Output setting of Favicon file (PNG and ICO). |

ico, icns

| Name | Type | Default | Description | | ----- | ---------- | --------------- | ---------------------------- | | name | String | app | Name of an output file. | | sizes | Number[] | [Defaults...] | Structure of an image sizes. |

favicon

| Name | Type | Default | Description | | -------- | ---------- | --------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | | name | String | favicon- | Prefix of an output PNG files. Start with the alphabet, can use - and _. This option is for PNG. The name of the ICO file is always favicon.ico. | | pngSizes | Number[] | [Defaults...] | Size structure of PNG files to output. | | icoSizes | Number[] | [Defaults...] | Structure of an image sizes for ICO. |

CLI

Usage:  icon-gen [options]

Generate an icon from the SVG or PNG file.
If "--ico", "--icns", "--favicon" is not specified, everything is output in the standard setting.

Options:
  -i, --input <Path>           Path of the SVG file or PNG file directory.
  -o, --output <Path>          Path of the output directory.
  -r, --report                 Display the process reports, default is disable.
  --ico                        Output ICO file with default settings, option is "--ico-*".
  --ico-name <Name>            ICO file name to output.
  --ico-sizes [Sizes]          PNG size list to structure ICO file
  --icns                       Output ICNS file with default settings, option is "--icns-*".
  --icns-name <Name>           ICO file name to output.
  --icns-sizes [Sizes]         PNG size list to structure ICNS file
  --favicon                    Output Favicon files with default settings, option is "--favicon-*".
  --favicon-name <Name>        prefix of the PNG file. Start with the alphabet, can use "-" and "_"
  --favicon-png-sizes [Sizes]  Sizes of the Favicon PNG files
  --favicon-ico-sizes [Sizes]  PNG size list to structure Favicon ICO file
  -v, --version                output the version number
  -h, --help                   output usage information

Examples:
  $ icon-gen -i sample.svg -o ./dist -r
  $ icon-gen -i ./images -o ./dist -r
  $ icon-gen -i sample.svg -o ./dist --ico --icns
  $ icon-gen -i sample.svg -o ./dist --ico --ico-name sample --ico-sizes 16,32
  $ icon-gen -i sample.svg -o ./dist --icns --icns-name sample --icns-sizes 16,32
  $ icon-gen -i sample.svg -o ./dist --favicon --favicon-name=favicon-  --favicon-png-sizes 16,32,128 --favicon-ico-sizes 16,32

See also:
  https://github.com/akabekobeko/npm-icon-gen

ChangeLog

• CHANGELOG

License

• MIT