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@Velocio
Microcosm favicon support will land in a day or so, and the old LFGSS icon was... shit.
So I figure it's a good time to have a new one made.
What is a favicon? Basically it's the image/icon you see next to the site title when you bookmark the site, or drag a site onto your desktop, and so on.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Favicon
Whilst really old browsers only allowed 16 x 16 pixels, most modern browsers will scale the icon as appropriate. Tablets, retina devices, Android mobiles, etc will all use the high quality one as-is.
With that in mind, you've got 196 x 196 pixels to play with, but you should bear in mind that detail will be lost in it's most prominent place, as an address bar icon in a desktop web browser. There it will be scaled to 16 x 16 pixels.
Favicons should be delivered as PNG files, with nothing fancy like progressive encoding, custom palettes, etc. Just a bog standard PNG.
Whichever people seem to think is best I'll use, but ultimately I'll make the decision (if lots of people like something crude... I'll reject it).