PNG to ICO - Convert icon online
Conversion Results:
| # | Output File | Source File | Action |
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How to convert PNG to ICO:
1. Click the "Choose Files" button to select multiple files on your computer or click the "URL" button to choose an online file from URL, Google Drive or Dropbox. The source image format can be PNG, SVG, JPG, BMP, GIF, WEBP, HEIC, ICO, etc. To create transparent icons, you must choose source images with transparent background.
2. Choose icon type and icon sizes. You can choose to create one single multi-resolution icon for all selected sizes or one icon file for each size. The standard sizes for icons are 16x16, 32x32, 48x48, 64x64 and 128x128 pixels. You can choose the "Custom size" option and enter custom icon sizes. The format is [width]x[height], ranging from 16x16 to 256x256, separated with comma. For example: 30x30,60x60,90x90.
3. Click the "Convert Now!" button to start batch conversion. The output files will be listed in the "Conversion Results" section. Click icon to show file QR code or save file to cloud storage services such as Google Drive or Dropbox.
PNG vs ICO:
| Name | PNG | ICO |
| Full name | Portable Network Graphics | Microsoft Icon |
| File extension | .png | .ico |
| MIME | image/png | image/x-icon, image/vnd.-microsoft.icon |
| Developed by | PNG Development Group | Microsoft |
| Type of format | Lossless bitmap image format | Graphics file format for computer icons |
| Introduction | Portable Network Graphics (PNG) is a raster graphics file format that supports lossless data compression. PNG was created as an improved, non-patented replacement for Graphics Interchange Format (GIF), and is the most used lossless image compression format on the Internet. PNG itself does not support animation at all. MNG is an extension to PNG that does; it was designed by members of the PNG Group. | The ICO file format is an image file format for computer icons in Microsoft Windows. ICO files contain one or more small images at multiple sizes and color depths, such that they may be scaled appropriately. In Windows, all executables that display an icon to the user, on the desktop, in the Start Menu, or in Windows Explorer, must carry the icon in ICO format. |
| Technical details | PNG supports palette-based images (with palettes of 24-bit RGB or 32-bit RGBA colors), grayscale images (with or without alpha channel), and full-color non-palette-based RGB[A] images (with or without alpha channel). PNG was designed for transferring images on the Internet, not for professional-quality print graphics, and therefore does not support non-RGB color spaces such as CMYK. | An ICO file is made up of an ICONDIR ("Icon directory") structure, containing an ICONDIRENTRY structure for each image in the file, followed by a contiguous block of all image bitmap data (which may be in either Windows BMP format, excluding the BITMAPFILEHEADER structure, or in PNG format, stored in its entirety). |
| Associated programs | Adobe Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, the GIMP, GraphicConverter, Helicon Filter, ImageMagick, Inkscape, IrfanView, Pixel image editor, Paint.NET, Xara Photo & Graphic Designer. | Axialis IconWorkshop, IcoFX, IconBuilder, Microangelo Toolset, Greenfish Icon Editor Pro, GIMP, ImageMagick, IrfanView, ResEdit. |
| Sample file | sample.png | sample.ico |
| Wikipedia | PNG on Wikipedia | ICO on Wikipedia |
