# ICO-FI Windows icon

Extensions: `.ico`

An ICO format based on the Freeimage library.

This format supports grayscale, RGB and RGBA images.

The freeimage plugin requires a freeimage binary. If this binary is not available on the system, it can be downloaded by either

- the command line script `imageio_download_bin freeimage`

- the Python method `imageio.plugins.freeimage.download()`

## Parameters for reading

makealphabool

  Convert to 32-bit and create an alpha channel from the AND- mask when loading. Default False. Note that this returns wrong results if the image was already RGBA.