The full hat does not resolve below ~32px, which the header worked around
by sizing up. A browser tab cannot: it renders the favicon at 16px and
does not ask. There the mark was a blob.
Deriving a small form from the traced art does not work, and this is the
non-obvious part. Hole-filling, morphological smoothing and dropping
components were all tried; every one of them preserves the overall
silhouette, and the overall silhouette — dominated by a long diagonal
plume — is precisely what fails. The result each time was a diagonal
smear that reads as no object at all.
So the reduced form is drawn rather than derived: a strong horizontal
brim under a crown that peaks left of centre, a band slit so the two do
not fuse, and a short pointed plume. Same lean and proportions as the
full mark, detail removed instead of minified.
favicon.svg and favicon.png now use it; apple-touch, icon-512 and the
Android launcher icons keep the full art, being large enough for it. The
plume carries the accent, which measures 3.04:1 on obsidian and 5.43:1 on
the light ground — both clear of the 3:1 graphics floor.
Also corrects the accent-on-iron figure in the generator's comment from
2.80:1 to 2.70:1. The real --fs-iron is #1E2228; 2.80 came from measuring
against a value I had guessed rather than read.
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