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Yea, this 'HN' logo doesn't scale down well in a favicon. I like the idea of the 'Y' because its two lines being combined into one.

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The funny thing is, I designed it at about 30px x 30px, and then scaled it up and recreated it in illustrator.

The proportions need a tiny bit of tweaking, but it doesn't really look too bad as a favicon. Here's the favicon version: http://cl.ly/Kd16

Great, it is much better result than when I tried with 32x32. I am having a lot of problems lately with logo's that don't work well when scaled down or as favicons.. so after recently learning this lesson I guess I am a bit preoccupied with how they work on small scale.

haha, well it IS a good point. So often designs are created that aren't scalable. That's one of my pet peeves actually.

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