The current favicon is a bit vague: a speech bubble containing the letters "EM".

It's okay once you know what it is, but it doesn't really suggest "Emacs" to me.

(No offense intended to whoever made it -- it's not an easy format to work with. Although I see now that it's a pretty common look for sites on the network, so I guess it wasn't designed for this site as such.)

Do we want to change it? Does anyone have a better idea which would work in a 16x16 pixel format?

Speech bubbles are clearly a theme, but a few sites have made them their own. Perhaps stylised parentheses would make an appropriate bubble for us?

I tried to make "M-x" work in a bubble, but I don't think there's enough space for that. Perhaps just a question mark would be better, if the rest of the icon was recognisable.

My rubbish gimp skills could only manage this as a general impression of what I was thinking:

I'm sure it could look a whole lot better than that, though.

Perhaps a better idea would be the sequence C-h (with no bubble) ?