The small assets a project needs before it can ship: a favicon set, a placeholder image, a background. They are quick to design and tedious to export correctly, which is why most of them are handled by a site that wants your logo uploaded first. These do the same job in the page — the file is built by JavaScript on your own machine, and the design travels in the address bar so a link redraws it exactly.
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Get a new project's icons done
Design the mark in the favicon generator, check it is still legible at 16 pixels, and take the zip. It carries the ICO, the SVG, the Apple touch icon, the two PWA sizes, a manifest, and the four lines of markup that reference them.
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Fill a layout before the assets exist
Generate placeholder images at the exact sizes your grid needs and paste them in as data URIs. Nothing is fetched at runtime, so the mock-up keeps working offline, in a screenshot, and after the placeholder service of the month goes dark.
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Give a page a background that is not a stock photo
Generate a blob, a pattern, or a grain overlay, and copy it out as a CSS background. It is a few hundred bytes of vector rather than a network request, and the seed in the URL means a colleague opening your link sees the same shape.
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Work with a mark you have not launched yet
An unreleased logo is exactly the kind of file that should not be handed to a free web service. These tools decode it in the page and never make a request with it — which is what makes it reasonable to drop it in at all.
Nothing is uploaded
Every asset is rendered by your own browser. Tinapps design tools make no request with your image, your text, or your colours — verify it in the network tab, or by disconnecting after the page loads.
The modern file set, not the historical one
Most generators still emit a decade-old pile of icons. Tinapps ships the files browsers actually read today and leaves out the ones that have been dead for years, with a note explaining each omission.
A verdict, not just an export
Each design tool answers the question behind the export: whether the mark survives at 16 pixels, whether the data URI is cheaper than a file, whether the CSS background has grown past the point where inlining pays.
The design is in the link
Colours, sizes, text, and seeds are all held in the query string. Sending someone the URL sends them the design, open and editable, rather than a flat image they cannot adjust.
Real fonts, loaded on demand
Ten Google Fonts families are available for the text in generated assets, fetched only when you pick one. Any font file on your machine can be used instead, which also keeps the tools working with no connection.
No account and no watermark
There is no sign-up, no export limit, no daily quota, and nothing stamped into the corner of the result. The files are yours the moment they are generated.
Are the Tinapps design tools really free, with no watermark?
Yes. The Tinapps design tools are free to use with no account, no export limit, and no watermark on anything they produce. The assets are generated by your own browser rather than on a server, so there is no per-export cost to recover.
Do design tools like the favicon generator upload my logo?
No. Tinapps design tools read your file with the browser's own FileReader and render everything on your device — no request carries the image, and no copy is stored anywhere. That is what makes it reasonable to use an unreleased logo or a client's brand asset in a browser tool.
Can I use these tools offline?
Mostly. Once a Tinapps design tool has loaded, generating and downloading assets keeps working with the network disconnected. The one exception is picking a new Google Fonts family, which fetches the font file — a font already used in the session, or one loaded from your own machine, works offline.
What file formats do the design tools export?
Tinapps design tools export PNG, SVG, and ICO, plus copy-ready data URIs and CSS. The favicon generator additionally bundles its output as a zip containing a site.webmanifest and the HTML snippet that references each file.
Can I share a design I made, so someone else can edit it?
Yes. Every Tinapps design tool keeps its full state in the query string, so the Share button hands you a URL that reopens the tool with the same colours, sizes, text, and seed. The recipient gets an editable design rather than a flat exported image.
Which fonts can I use in a generated asset?
Tinapps design tools offer ten Google Fonts families across sans, serif, monospace, and display, loaded only when selected. You can also load any TTF, OTF, or WOFF file from your own machine, which is how brand fonts and offline use are handled.