Customize Chirpy's Favicon
This was a little weirder than I thought it’d be because the Chirpy’s official documentation is kind of vague once you get past the favicon generator steps.
In the documentation it says to just replace all of Chirpy’s .png and .ico files with the files you get from the favicon generator and then just rebuild the site.
However, there’s a bit more to it than that.
Yes, you do have to replace those files with your own. But then you have to navigate to /_includes/favicons.html and edit there to actually get it working. The default setup has two lines that say type=:image/png" in them.
As you can see on lines 9 and 10 there are two png type file references. By default the sizes of these images are 32x32 and 16x16 respectively. Mine says 96x96 for both because I was testing something and the favicon image generator only gave me that size.
Now if you look at the favicon generator’s documentation it shows you a bunch of lines you need to add to the <head> sections of your pages.
Notice there is only one .png file type reference in this code, but two of them in the favicons.html file. So I replaced line 9 with the correct file name, which in my case was favicon-96x96.png and then I replaced line 10 with the favicon.svg file the generator provided.
Notice the change on line 10.
Everything else was named correctly so it stayed the same. But I struggled with this more than I anticipated, and I think Chirpy’s documentation could be a little more detailed in it’s instructions to do this.
Regardless, it’s done, maybe if someone runs into the same issue they’ll find the answers here.