Boring web-dev stuff, yay!

After a little pause of twenty years, I decided to freshen up my favicon foo. All those previews, browser tab headings and search results I’m seeing are giving me the impression that a 16×16-pixel bitmap in an obscure Microsoft file format doesn’t cut it anymore…

What is this, a favicon for ants?

At least on my ancient low-dpi desktop, Google Chrome still uses the 16×16 version in its native resolution, and because low-res is cool, this size shall be the starting point.

After handpixelling three versions for the smaller sizes (16×16, 32×32, 64×64) it turned out that I cannot use the 32 px one. For the browser tab icon, Google Chrome will always load the 32×32 version and squish it down to 16×16 pixels if both versions are referenced.

Well, that was fun. Let’s never touch favicons again until 2044.