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Scripts are soooo coool.

I remember doing similar things in Windows, but couldn’t find the batch files any more. There is an example (thanks Rob W for answering, thanks Suchipi for asking) that works in Mac/Linux:

ImageMagick (Windows/Mac/Linux) contains a command-line tool called convert that can be used for many things, including packing multiple images in one icon:

convert 16.png 32.png 48.png 128.png 256.png -colors 256 icon.ico

The previous command takes 5 PNG images, and combines them into a single .ico file.

Unlike the other answers, this method can easily be used in batch scripts to automatically generate several icon files. In one of my projects, I have a single vector image (SVG), and use Inkscape to generate png’s of various sizes, followed by convert to create a icon container. This is a reduced example (in a bash script):

#!/bin/bash
for size in 16 32 48 128 256; do
    inkscape -z -e $size.png -w $size -h $size icon.svg >/dev/null 2>/dev/null
done
convert 16.png 32.png 48.png 128.png 256.png -colors 256 icon.ico

–jeroen

via:

• windows – How do I embed multiple sizes in an .ico file? – Super User.
• imagemagick: icons – How to make/get a multi size .ico file? – Stack Overflow.
• GIMP layering: icons – How to make/get a multi size .ico file? – Stack Overflow.