diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 3db1f70581..293b85ff30 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -685,7 +685,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "serde-untagged",
  "serde-value",
  "thiserror 2.0.16",
- "toml",
+ "toml 0.8.23",
  "unicode-xid",
  "url",
 ]
@@ -2267,6 +2267,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "wgpu",
  "windows",
  "winit",
+ "winres",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -5550,7 +5551,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "cfg-expr",
  "heck",
  "pkg-config",
- "toml",
+ "toml 0.8.23",
  "version-compare",
 ]
 
@@ -5816,6 +5817,15 @@ dependencies = [
  "tokio",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "toml"
+version = "0.5.11"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "f4f7f0dd8d50a853a531c426359045b1998f04219d88799810762cd4ad314234"
+dependencies = [
+ "serde",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "toml"
 version = "0.8.23"
@@ -7357,6 +7367,15 @@ dependencies = [
  "memchr",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "winres"
+version = "0.1.12"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "b68db261ef59e9e52806f688020631e987592bd83619edccda9c47d42cde4f6c"
+dependencies = [
+ "toml 0.5.11",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "wit-bindgen"
 version = "0.45.0"
diff --git a/desktop/Cargo.toml b/desktop/Cargo.toml
index b6dd579a27..e8e860fb76 100644
--- a/desktop/Cargo.toml
+++ b/desktop/Cargo.toml
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ serde = { workspace = true }
 ash = { version = "0.38", optional = true }
 
 # Windows-specific dependencies
-[target.'cfg(windows)'.dependencies]
+[target.'cfg(target_os = "windows")'.dependencies]
 windows = { version = "0.58.0", features = [
 	"Win32_Foundation",
 	"Win32_Graphics_Direct3D11",
@@ -72,3 +72,6 @@ core-foundation = { version = "0.9", optional = true }
 # Linux-specific dependencies
 [target.'cfg(target_os = "linux")'.dependencies]
 libc = { version = "0.2", optional = true }
+
+[target.'cfg(target_os = "windows")'.build-dependencies]
+winres = "0.1"
diff --git a/desktop/assets/graphite-icon-color.ico b/desktop/assets/graphite-icon-color.ico
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..d8005273de
Binary files /dev/null and b/desktop/assets/graphite-icon-color.ico differ
diff --git a/desktop/build.rs b/desktop/build.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..bf70ac6202
--- /dev/null
+++ b/desktop/build.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+fn main() {
+	#[cfg(target_os = "windows")]
+	{
+		let mut res = winres::WindowsResource::new();
+		res.set_icon("assets/graphite-icon-color.ico");
+		res.compile().expect("Failed to compile Windows resources");
+	}
+}
diff --git a/desktop/src/native_window.rs b/desktop/src/native_window.rs
index 45dd37589d..80cadf47dc 100644
--- a/desktop/src/native_window.rs
+++ b/desktop/src/native_window.rs
@@ -39,8 +39,17 @@ impl NativeWindowHandle {
 			} else {
 				let x11_window = WindowAttributesX11::default().with_name(APP_ID, APP_NAME);
 				window.with_platform_attributes(Box::new(x11_window))
+			};
+		}
+
+		#[cfg(target_os = "windows")]
+		{
+			if let Ok(win_icon) = winit::platform::windows::WinIcon::from_resource(1, None) {
+				let icon = winit::icon::Icon(std::sync::Arc::new(win_icon));
+				window = window.with_window_icon(Some(icon));
 			}
 		}
+
 		window
 	}
 	#[allow(unused_variables)]