grunt-favicon

Generate site favicons via ImageMagick.

If you haven't used Grunt before, be sure to check out the Getting Started guide, as it explains how to create a Gruntfile as well as install and use Grunt plugins. Once you're familiar with that process, you may install this plugin with this command:

npm install grunt-favicon --save-dev

Once the plugin has been installed, it may be enabled inside your Gruntfile with this line of javascript:

grunt.loadNpmTasks("grunt-favicon");

WARNING: This extension require global install ImageMagick.

• For Windows go to the ImageMagick and download installer.
• For Debian, Ubuntu or Mint run on command line: sudo apt-get install imagemagick
• For Redhut, Centos or Fedora run on command line: sudo yum install ImageMagick
• For Gentoo run on command line: sudo emerge media-gfx/imagemagick
• For MacOS run on command line: sudo port install ImageMagick

Options

options.countOfImages

• type <number>
• default 6

Count of images into icon.

options.colorDepth

• type <number>
• default 8

Count of bits for color.

Example

grunt.initConfig({
    favicon: {
        options: {
            // Icons contains 3 images
            // (16x16, 32x32, 48x48)
            countOfImages: 3,
            // for 256 colors, is max value
            colorDepth: 8
        },
        tasks: {
            options: {
                // override options if needed
            },
            files: [{
                expand : true,
                cwd    : "src",
                ext    : ".ico",
                dest   : "dest",
                src    : "*.png"
            }]
        }
    }
});