How to change the default favicons

By default, the Sharetribe Web Template uses favicons and application icons generated through Console. You can also use RealFaviconGenerator  to generate your own set of favicons, if necessary.

You can upload your original icon to the tool, customize the colors and themes, and download a generated set if icons and an HTML snippet to point to those images.

Generate new favicons

1. Open https://realfavicongenerator.net/ 

2. Upload your original icon image

3. Configure platform specific icons

   Note: Remember to set the “Theme color” in the Android Chrome section

4. Configure the paths to use /static/icons/ as the root path of the icons

5. Generate the icons

6. Unzip the favicons.zip archive and replace the default icons and files in public/static/icons/  with the new icons

7. Replace the default HTML snippet in public/index.html  with the snippet from the generator.

   Remove the manifest link from the snippet as we have a default manifest with extra data compared to the generated one. You can edit the default file as you wish.

   Example HTML snippet:

   <!-- Start Favicons from https://realfavicongenerator.net/ -->
   <link
     rel="apple-touch-icon"
     sizes="180x180"
     href="/static/icons/apple-touch-icon.png"
   />
   <link
     rel="icon"
     type="image/png"
     sizes="32x32"
     href="/static/icons/favicon-32x32.png"
   />
   <link
     rel="icon"
     type="image/png"
     sizes="16x16"
     href="/static/icons/favicon-16x16.png"
   />
   <link
     rel="mask-icon"
     href="/static/icons/safari-pinned-tab.svg"
     color="#c0392b"
   />
   <link rel="shortcut icon" href="/static/icons/favicon.ico" />
   <meta
     name="msapplication-config"
     content="/static/icons/browserconfig.xml"
   />
   <meta name="theme-color" content="#c0392b" />
   <!-- End Favicons -->