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The files the front end actually needs: SVG, the favicon sizes browsers request, transparent PNG at 1x and 2x, base64 data URIs, WebP, and an OG image at exactly 1200x630. Exact hexes, predictable output, no design application required.
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What usually arrives, and what you needed
A 4 MB PNG is not a header logo
What lands in the shared folder is often a single large raster at whatever size the design file happened to be. What the header needs is an SVG, or a transparent PNG at the rendered width and twice it, plus a WebP fallback. Producing those from the file you were given takes a minute here rather than a thread in Slack.
Exact values, not sampled ones
Sampling a brand colour off a screenshot gives you a blend of the mark and whatever was behind it - a plausible hex that appears nowhere in the brand. The colour picker reads exact values out of an uploaded file, and colour replacement swaps one for another with a tolerance you set, so the anti-aliased edge does not keep a rim of the old colour.
Favicons are a set, not a file
Browsers, iOS and Android between them ask for 16, 32, 48, 64, 96, 128, 180 and 192 pixel squares. Generating them all from the master rather than resizing each from the previous one is what stops the small sizes turning to mush.
The OG image nobody remembers
A missing or wrongly sized Open Graph image is why a link to the site renders as a blank rectangle in Slack, X and LinkedIn. It is 1200x630, it needs to survive being cropped, and it is a five-minute job that gets skipped until someone posts the launch link.
Base64, data URIs and payload size
Inlining a small icon as a data URI removes a request; inlining a large one bloats the document and defeats caching. Converting either way is one step here, along with format conversion to WebP and compression, so you can measure the tradeoff rather than guess it.
Handoff problems worth pre-empting
Ask for the vector, in writing, early
The SVG is trivial to export while the design project is open and awkward to retrieve a year later from someone who has moved on.
A white halo means a baked-in background
If the transparent PNG shows a light fringe on a dark surface, it was flattened onto white before export. Re-cut it rather than compositing around it.
Do not mark every image priority
Preloading more than one or two images per route makes the LCP element compete for bandwidth with things nobody sees yet.
Ship the OG image before launch day
It is the difference between a link card and a blank rectangle, and it is always noticed at the worst possible moment.
Getting web-ready files out
Upload whatever you were handed
PNG, JPG, SVG or WebP. Editing and previewing are free and need no signup.
Clean the background
Remove a baked-in white background so the mark composites correctly over your own surfaces.
Produce the variants
White for dark mode, black for print, exact brand hex where the design system calls for it.
Export the formats you need
SVG, transparent PNG at 1x and 2x, WebP, base64 data URI, or the thirteen-file favicon and web-size bundle as a ZIP.
Image Tools for Developers — in the editor
The real editor, start to finish — no signup needed to try it yourself.
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Where it fits in a front-end workflow
Header and nav marks
SVG where you can use it, transparent PNG at 1x and 2x where you cannot, and a white variant for the dark theme.
Favicon and app icons
Every square size browsers and mobile home screens request, generated from the master in one pass.
Open Graph and Twitter cards
A correctly sized 1200x630 image so links to the app render as a card rather than a blank.
Format and payload work
WebP conversion, compression, and base64 data URIs when inlining genuinely beats a request.
Or just ask
Describe the edit in your own words
Type what you want changed and the assistant does it on the canvas — useful when the edit is easier to say than to find.
Frequently Asked Questions
Related Tools
Guides worth reading
SVG vs PNG for Logos: Which File Do You Actually Need?
What SVG and PNG really are, where each one wins, why your developer keeps asking for the SVG, and the three files that cover almost every request.
How to Fix Blurry or Fringed Edges on a Transparent PNG
Why your transparent PNG has a white halo, a grey fringe or soft edges — the four real causes, how to tell them apart in seconds, and the fix for each.
How to Make a Vector Logo (and When You Actually Need One)
What vector really means, the three honest routes from where you are now, when auto-tracing works, and how to check the result is genuinely vector.
Get the files the front end needs
SVG, favicon sizes, transparent PNG at 1x and 2x, WebP and base64 - from whatever you were handed.