Feature request: Find square website icons automatically, including PNG and SVG
Hi,
Could the “Choose new icon…” flow include a “Find icons on website…” option?
Currently, if an item’s automatic icon is missing or unsuitable, I need to find an image, download it, and then select it manually. It would be convenient if 1Password could find suitable images using the item’s website address and let me choose one.
I understand the concern about traditional favicons being too low-resolution. However, websites often provide larger images through standard metadata:
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Web app manifests: square app icons, often named something like
icon-512.png. -
HTML icon links:
rel="icon"andrel="apple-touch-icon". -
Open Graph and Twitter Card metadata:
og:imageandtwitter:image, when the referenced image is square.
The picker should only offer square images, checking their actual dimensions and filtering out low-resolution options. For raster images, it could prefer 512 × 512 or larger. A preview showing the dimensions and format would make choosing straightforward.
For example, vasttrafik.se declares this 512 × 512 PNG in its web app manifest:
https://www.vasttrafik.se/icon-512.png
That is a manifest icon rather than an Open Graph image, but it illustrates the kind of suitable image that could be discovered automatically.
There is also another icon at https://www.vasttrafik.se/apple-touch-icon.png which is good since it contains a white background.
I’d also like SVG support in this discovery flow and for custom icon uploads. Vector logos can use smaller files and remain sharp at any display scale. Square SVGs could be identified using their dimensions or viewBox.
This could be an optional, user-triggered action alongside the existing rich icons and manual file selection. It would save the download-and-upload steps when a website already provides a suitable icon.
disclaimer: I found and drafted the idea myself, but asked an AI to clean it up and to do write the text better than I could.
