Django Super Favicon is a project that aiming to replace external solutions like realfavicongenerator.net: Create favicon for all kind of client platform.
Super Favicon does:
- Creates icons in various size
- Uploads them in static file storage (or other)
- Creates HTML headers tags for use them
It could sound useless, but hold a website identity in browsers' favorites or iOS/Android/Windows home screen is a pretty good thing.
I often see that Django dev used to create a view for serve favicon.ico, I think this is summum of bad pratices: File must be served by a dedicated server. I designed this project to use Django Storage API and make generated files deployment agnostic.
There are other Django projects in the same topic:
- django-favicon : A view for serve favicon (Ouch)
- django-favicon-plus : Make the same than mine, but through models and ImageField
That's why super ...
pip install django-super-favicon
Add the following things in your settings.py:
INSTALLED_APPS = (
...
'favicon',
...
)
Upload them to your storage (by default your filesystem):
./manage.py generate_favicon your_icon.png
And put this in your templates:
{% load favicon %}
...
<head>
...
{% get_favicons %}
</head>
It will produce something like:
<link rel="apple-touch-icon-precomposed" href="/static/favicon-152.png"> <meta name="msapplication-TileColor" content="#FFFFFF"> <meta name="msapplication-TileImage" content="/static/favicon-144.png"> <meta name="application-name" content="Name"> <meta name="msapplication-tooltip" content="Tooltip"> <meta name="msapplication-config" content="/static/ieconfig.xml"> <link rel="icon" href="/static/favicon-32.png" sizes="32x32"> <link rel="icon" href="/static/favicon-57.png" sizes="57x57"> <link rel="icon" href="/static/favicon-76.png" sizes="76x76"> <link rel="icon" href="/static/favicon-96.png" sizes="96x96"> <link rel="icon" href="/static/favicon-120.png" sizes="120x120"> <link rel="icon" href="/static/favicon-128.png" sizes="128x128"> <link rel="icon" href="/static/favicon-144.png" sizes="144x144"> <link rel="icon" href="/static/favicon-152.png" sizes="152x152"> <link rel="icon" href="/static/favicon-180.png" sizes="180x180"> <link rel="icon" href="/static/favicon-195.png" sizes="195x195"> <link rel="icon" href="/static/favicon-228.png" sizes="228x228"> <link rel="icon" href="/static/smalltile.png" sizes="128x128"> <link rel="icon" href="/static/mediumtile.png" sizes="270x270"> <link rel="icon" href="/static/widetile.png" sizes="558x270"> <link rel="icon" href="/static/largetile.png" sizes="558x558"> <link rel="shortcut icon" sizes="196x196" href="/static/favicon-196.png">
Super Favicon can be configured with the followings constants in
settings.py:
FAVICON_STORAGE: Storage class used for store favicons,
default: settings.STATICFILES_STORAGE
FAVICON_STORAGE_OPTIONS: Options used for instanciate the custom storage.
default: {}
Create favicons in different formats.
generate_favicon <source_file>
Delete previously created favicon
delete_favicon
All contribution are very welcomed, propositions, problems, bugs and enhancement are tracked with GitHub issues system and patch are submitted via pull requests.
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