Design a favicon for LFGSS

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).

I liked this one.

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That one was pretty shit.

I'll stick with the 'M' if something better doesn't emerge.

Just use a cog or something. The M is too generic and hard to spot in amongst browser tabs.

Just use a cog or something

Something like this?

Which would look like this:

https://www.lfgss.com/

I like this one too

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Or

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Does that belong to another site?

I ask for a design because I don't want to be stealing someone else's site icon.

Do u even bikeradar?

It should be a spok.

Yeah. Chainring.perhaps cog inside
75" gear please

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What's the font for the logo, and do you have the web colours for the blue and grey please?

Why you no put old one back for now?

It was shit.

I think it's Gotham.

For fun you can just grab the header logo and open it in a suitable graphics program... it's an SVG so the shapes and colours are in there.

https://lfgss.microcosm.app/api/v1/files/0266d45a0ac7c081b59c9a0213a13a9f0cada494.svg

A big bushy beard under some raybans.

It might be shit but it's recognisable. Like floppy disks for Save works for kids that have never used a floppy disk.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaod3dQs_10

I like the cog. And Marcom has the right sort of idea too.

Marcom's looks too much like the LCC's one.

This forum needs more Limp Bizkit too.

Who wanted the spok?

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Cyclists going round the Pringle?

That second one is good. Evokes many old photos/postcards of classic cyclists too.

Do you have the larger version: 196 x 196 ?

PS: Do we know who the cyclist is?