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Finally a Favicon

When checking my sites network usage earlier, I was reminded that browsers will try to load a file called favicon.ico from any site and mine didn’t have one. I was initially inspired by the two-triangle fast-forward symbol to make a site logo with my initials, in the form of a basic SVG.

The SVG just contains 5 polygons - a rectangular white background, two black triangles making the fast-forward symbol, and two white triangles on top which cut out sections from the black ones to convert them into a crude “DL”:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<!DOCTYPE svg PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SVG 1.0//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-SVG-20010904/DTD/svg10.dtd">
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" version="1.0" width="64" height="64">
  <rect width="100%" height="100%" fill="white" />
  <polygon points="1,1 1,62 30,30" fill="black" />
  <polygon points="32,1 32,62 61,30" fill="black" />
  <polygon points="8,18 8,43 19,30" fill="white" />
  <polygon points="40,1 40,43 60,22" fill="white" />
</svg>
/images/2026/old-favicon.png

The end result came out more like some arcane runes than a fast forward logo. Deciding I wanted something a bit more LCARSish, I just threw together a monochrome logo with my initials and called it a day:

/favicon.png