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Create a Windows Device Metadata icon file using ImageMagick

A Windows 10 device metadata requires an icon file with 13 combinations of image size, alpha, bit depth, and colors. I found the open source ImageMagick 7 particularly helpful. Here’s a recipe for quickly creating an ico file, given a PNG file with enough resolution—I used one with 512x512 pixels, 32-bit depth, and alpha

convert $1 -resize 16x16   -depth 4   -colors 16  -background SlateGray1 -alpha Remove 16-4.png
convert $1 -resize 16x16   -depth 8   -colors 256 -background SlateGray1 -alpha Remove 16-8.png
convert $1 -resize 16x16   -depth 32                                                   16-32.png
convert $1 -resize 24x24   -depth 4   -colors 16  -background SlateGray1 -alpha Remove 24-4.png
convert $1 -resize 24x24   -depth 8   -colors 256 -background SlateGray1 -alpha Remove 24-8.png
convert $1 -resize 24x24   -depth 32                                                   24-32.png
convert $1 -resize 32x32   -depth 4   -colors 16  -background SlateGray1 -alpha Remove 32-4.png
convert $1 -resize 32x32   -depth 8   -colors 256 -background SlateGray1 -alpha Remove 32-8.png
convert $1 -resize 32x32   -depth 32                                                   32-32.png
convert $1 -resize 48x48   -depth 4   -colors 16  -background SlateGray1 -alpha Remove 48-4.png
convert $1 -resize 48x48   -depth 8   -colors 256 -background SlateGray1 -alpha Remove 48-8.png
convert $1 -resize 48x48   -depth 32                                                   48-32.png
convert $1 -resize 256x256 -depth 32                                                   256-32.png

convert 16-4.png 16-8.png 16-32.png 24-4.png 24-8.png 24-32.png 32-4.png 32-8.png 32-32.png 48-4.png 48-8.png 48-32.png 256-32.png $2

Save the above bash script and execute with the PNG file path followed by ico file path

./convert.sh image.svg icon.ico

Adjust the background color to match.