Distressed favicon generator.

Mono grain at 25 to 40 percent with grayscale on: aged and weathered. For a worn look that keeps your colors, palette noise at the same strength.

Random pixels at 40 to 60 percent. The scattered colors read as damage and wear, the look of alternative and street brands.

Mono grain at 12 to 20 percent: not damaged, just not factory-fresh.

Palette noise at 20 to 30 percent: organic wear in the icon's own colors, which suits rustic and craft brands.

Heavy distress can make a 16-pixel favicon unreadable; keep it at 15 to 25 percent there and go heavier only on the 32- and 48-pixel frames and touch icons.

Intensity is the share of opaque pixels that get a new value, from 0 to 100 percent. On a 16-pixel favicon, 5 to 15 percent is texture and 30 percent is already a lot; a 256-pixel desktop icon takes more. Transparent pixels are never touched.

Random pixels writes any color. Mono grain writes a grey. Color variation nudges each channel a little, so the icon keeps its colors. Palette noise reuses colors sampled from the icon. Custom colors draws from the list you type, as hex or names.

ICO or PNG. ICO is written here, with PNG-wrapped frames: As is keeps the frame's size, 16–48 packs 16, 32 and 48 for a favicon, 16–256 adds 64, 128 and 256 for Windows. Every frame is the same grained picture, scaled.

An ICO is a container: a directory of frames, each a PNG or a Windows bitmap at its own size and depth. The tool reads the directory itself, lists every frame and starts on the largest; the Frame choice in the bar switches to another.

No. The ICO is read and its frames decoded by JavaScript on your device; the page makes no request with your file. Load it, go offline and it still works.

No. The Distressed favicon generator is free and opens without a sign-in, an account or an install.

Nothing. The Distressed favicon generator holds your input in the page's memory, so closing or reloading the tab clears it, and it saves nothing in this browser.

Up to 20 MB per file, the limit the tool states under its drop area. A larger file is refused with a plain message instead of being decoded.

The default is an ICO at the frame's own size, or at 16 to 48 or 16 to 256 px; PNG is the other choice. Either way the edit is applied to the frame you pick.

No. The browser decodes the image and the tool writes a new file from its pixels, so camera EXIF, GPS position and text chunks in the original are not copied into the result. Keep the original file if you need them.

No. The result has the same width and height in pixels as the source.

Closest to the Distressed favicon generator: ICO noise generator, Add grain to a favicon, ICO color tone changer, ICO opacity changer. Each opens on its own page, free and in the browser.

The Distressed favicon generator is one of 37 in its group. The group's page, /tools/ico, lists them all.

The tool is free. Its interface is built from shadcn.io's own components (Button, Input, Slider and the rest of the registry under /ui), which come in React, Vue, Svelte and Solid. Pro adds the blocks and templates for the product around it.