Is there a free and easy text-only favicon generator? There are numerous online favicon generators asking for a image+text to create a favicon. I am interested in putting only text into my favicon, probably with a choice of different fonts. Anybody knows of a a good online text-only favicon generator?
Also, any desktop solution that does not involve paid software will also do. Does anybody know of such an option (I use a MAC)?
I don't know a good online one, but why not just boot up MacPaint and put some black text on a white background? You could save the result as an image in the right size yourself, or upload it to one of the generators to get the sizing and formatting done for you. Your font choice would be quite large, as you could use any of the free fonts available on the web.
Personally, I would just boot up some image editor and make a 16x16 png image, then use the png image as the favicon. It doesn't have to be an ico file, and even if it does just convert it using something (I don't know what software would do this on a mac, gimp maybe?)
No matter what it's going to be an image, but if you want the image to just be a letter or something you can do that.