Do we want a different favicon for Spanish Language?

Question

Currently both Spanish Language and Earth Science have a favicon that is almost the same (see Meta.SE Favicon of Earth Science and Spanish are too similar (exactly the same in HNQ list) and Earth Science vs. Spanish Language favicons: now with 0% lowercasing!).

While we are in Beta, we are supposedly not allowed to have our own style of icons. However, it is clear that the current situation makes both sites difficult to distinguish.

Prompted by CM Catija's comment:

If these sites want different icons that are still Unicode, that discussion needs to happen on their respective sites. It's not for MSE to decide if this should be changed and, if so, to what. I recognize that this question was originally asked on a child meta and that it was migrated here because it was about two sites. But the question isn't "should these be more different" the question is "do we want something else?" – Catija♦ Mar 20 at 18:51

I ask here: do we want a different icon? If so, which one?

Answer 1

I would definitely favor an ñ favicon. Ñ would be OK too, but lowercase fits better. Both are Unicode characters.

I don't want to bother any of you explaining how and why the letter Ñ is essentially the symbol of the Spanish language; it's already been discussed in the linked posts, and one need only read not even the Spanish but the English Wikipedia entry for Ñ to see that this letter's history is tied to that of our language, and that most (if not all) of the other languages that use Ñ do so influenced by Spanish use (or because computers lacked the actual non-latin1 letters and they had to make do with an Ñ as the closest one).

It is true, however, that the tilde might not render clearly at low resolutions, depending on the font used, existence of aliasing etc.
A 1-pixel-wide ñ renders quite clearly, IMO:
That favicon was done pixel by pixel in Paint by me, trying to resemble the 1-pixel-wide ES letters currently used in the smallest icon. I don't know whether StackExchange's way of generating Unicode favicons allows for such a clear tilde in such a small size, but I hope it does. Also, I don't think the "big" favicon would have this problem.

If a ñ favicon is somehow not doable, other distinctive Spanish symbols are the opening question mark ¿ (info) and opening exclamation mark ¡ (info).
A favicon made with some combination of these (¿? ¡! ¡¿ ¿¡) would probably be distinct enough, but I don't think most people would identify it as being related to the Spanish language.

TL;DR: Yes, I want a different favicon, one with a lowercase ñ.

Answer 2

To give another option its own place to be voted on, the inverted question mark (a distinguishing feature of the Spanish orthography, which also embodies the idea of SE being a Q&A site).

Either singular:

¿

or as a pair:

¿?

Answer 3

I like walen's proposal, but just to give people the other obvious choice to vote:

Yes, I want a different favicon, one with an uppercase Ñ.

_{Ñ is U+00D1 in Unicode, Ñ in HTML.}

Answer 4

Why such dull blue & white colours?

Cambiando los colores a aquellos de la bandera española, sería mucho más llamativo e identificador.

A cambio, blanco sobre azul cielo apenas da contraste e aún menos en un fávicon minúsculo.

Los japoneses hicieron algo similar: