IcoUtil

A simple Python library to create .ico files (Windows icon file format) from .png files.

Table of contents

• Install
• Usage
  • As a library
  • As a CLI program
• Remarks
• Creator
• License

Install

Use the PyPi.org package index:

pip3 install icoutil

Usage

As a library

Two ways to use the library:

• Creating a .ico file from a single directory that contains multiple .png files:

  import icoutil
  
  ico = icoutil.IcoFile()
  ico.add_png_dir('path/to/dir')
  ico.write('output.ico')
  

• Creating a .ico file from multiple .png files:

  import icoutil
  
  ico = icoutil.IcoFile()
  ico.add_png('path/to/image1.png')
  ico.add_png('path/to/image2.png')
  ico.add_png('path/to/image3.png')
  ico.add_png('...')
  ico.write('output.ico')
  

As a CLI program

Two ways to use the CLI:

• Creating a .ico file from a single directory that contains multiple .png files:

  icoutil --output "icon.ico" "path/to/dir"
  

• Creating a .ico file from multiple .png files:

  icoutil --output "icon.ico" "path/to/image1.png" "path/to/image2.png" "path/to/image3.png" ...
  

Remarks

• The file specification can be read here.
• The following sizes are used by Windows, but not all required:
  • 16×16
  • 20×20
  • 24×24
  • 32×32
  • 40×40
  • 48×48
  • 64×64
  • 96×96
  • 128×128
  • 256×256
• This library won't consider sizes outside the ones specified above.
• The maximum allowed size is 256×256 pixels.

Creator

Olivier Cléro | email | website | github | gitlab

License

This project is available under the MIT license. See the LICENSE file for more info.