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How can we change the favicon of SE site in Beta? suggests it may be possible. I'd guess that:

1. The community on this site must agree to make the request

It sounds like a good request to me (so I upvoted your question, and I invite other users to upvote it too).

Perhaps (unless there's a reason to stay with blue) an appropriate color would be orange (or 'saffron') e.g. as suggested here and here.

2. The request must be physically possible

A favicon is a 32x32 icon.

  Here's the icon from Hinduism.SE:

That's not too small for a recognizable Dharmachakra, for example:

I made the above image as follows:

• Copy "Unicode Symbol: ☸ (U+2638: Wheel Of Dharma)" from Wikipedia's Dharmachakra -- Symbol topic.
• Paste the symbol into Notepad, set the font to size 26 (using the default Consolas font family), take a screenshot, then select, copy, and paste

3. The SE developers must agree to implement it.

Let's see whether they do or can. The above-linked answer says,

The correct way to do this is to create a meta post (on Hinduism Meta, not the main meta) with the tag feature-request. Stack Exchange employees monitor that tag across all meta sites in the network. You should get an answer from them in due course, though it may take six to eight weeks before you get an answer, and then another arbitrary amount of time before anything is actually done.

P.S.: Different Stack Exchange sites have the same logo says it's important (for usability) that sites have dissimilar favicons.

The current "Bu" icon is similar to "B", "BH", "BI", "BC", and "BG" icons used by other sites.

How can we change the favicon of SE site in Beta? suggests that yes, this may be possible!

I think it's a good idea -- so I upvoted your question, and I invite other people to upvote it too.

A favicon is a 32x32 icon. Here's the icon from Hinduism.SE:

That's not too small for a recognizable Dharmachakra, for example:

I made the above image, by:

1. Copying "Unicode Symbol: ☸ (U+2638: Wheel Of Dharma)" from Dharmachakra -- Symbol
2. Pasting it (using a suitable font size like 22 or 26, and a default font family like Consolas).

Or perhaps (unless there's a reason to stay with blue) an appropriate color would be orange (or 'saffron') e.g. as suggested here and here.

Let's see whether SE developers agree to implement it. The above-linked answer says,

The correct way to do this is to create a meta post (on Hinduism Meta, not the main meta) with the tag feature-request. Stack Exchange employees monitor that tag across all meta sites in the network. You should get an answer from them in due course, though it may take six to eight weeks before you get an answer, and then another arbitrary amount of time before anything is actually done.

P.S.: Different Stack Exchange sites have the same logo says it's important (for usability) that sites have dissimilar favicons.

The current "Bu" icon is similar to "B", "BH", "BI", "BC", and "BG" icons used by other sites.

How can we change the favicon of SE site in Beta? suggests it may be possible. I'd guess that:

1. The community on this site must agree to make the request

It sounds like a good request to me (so I upvoted your question, and I invite other users to upvote it too).

Perhaps (unless there's a reason to stay with blue) an appropriate color would be orange (or 'saffron') e.g. as suggested here and here.

2. The request must be physically possible

A favicon is a 32x32 icon.

Here's the icon from Hinduism.SE:

That's not too small for a recognizable Dharmachakra, for example:

I made the above image as follows:

• Copy "Unicode Symbol: ☸ (U+2638: Wheel Of Dharma)" from Wikipedia's Dharmachakra -- Symbol topic.
• Paste the symbol into Notepad, set the font to size 30 (using the default Consolas font family), take a screenshot, then select, copy, and paste

3. The SE developers must agree to implement it.

Let's see whether they do or can. The above-linked answer says,

The correct way to do this is to create a meta post (on Hinduism Meta, not the main meta) with the tag feature-request. Stack Exchange employees monitor that tag across all meta sites in the network. You should get an answer from them in due course, though it may take six to eight weeks before you get an answer, and then another arbitrary amount of time before anything is actually done.

P.S.: Different Stack Exchange sites have the same logo says it's important (for usability) that sites have dissimilar favicons.

The current "Bu" icon is similar to "B", "BH", "BI", "BC", and "BG" icons used by other sites.

How can we change the favicon of SE site in Beta? suggests it may be possible. I'd guess that:

1. The community on this site must agree to make the request

It sounds like a good request to me (so I upvoted your question, and I invite other users to upvote it too).

Perhaps (unless there's a reason to stay with blue) an appropriate color would be orange (or 'saffron') e.g. as suggested here and here.

2. The request must be physically possible

A favicon is a 32x32 icon.

Here's the icon from Hinduism.SE:

That's not too small for a recognizable Dharmachakra, for example:

I made the above image as follows:

• Copy "Unicode Symbol: ☸ (U+2638: Wheel Of Dharma)" from Wikipedia's Dharmachakra -- Symbol topic.
• Paste the symbol into Notepad, set the font to size 26 (using the default Consolas font family), take a screenshot, then select, copy, and paste

3. The SE developers must agree to implement it.

Let's see whether they do or can. The above-linked answer says,

The correct way to do this is to create a meta post (on Hinduism Meta, not the main meta) with the tag feature-request. Stack Exchange employees monitor that tag across all meta sites in the network. You should get an answer from them in due course, though it may take six to eight weeks before you get an answer, and then another arbitrary amount of time before anything is actually done.

P.S.: Different Stack Exchange sites have the same logo says it's important (for usability) that sites have dissimilar favicons.

The current "Bu" icon is similar to "B", "BH", "BI", "BC", and "BG" icons used by other sites.

Maybe?

Christianity.SE is a 'graduated' site; but Hinduism.SE is a 'beta' site, like this one.

How can we change the favicon of SE site in Beta? suggests it may be possible.

I'd guess that, in order for it to happen:

1. The community on this site must agree to make the request

It sounds like a good request to me (so I upvoted your question).

Perhaps (unless there's a reason to stay with blue) an appropriate color would be orange (or 'saffron') e.g. as suggested here and here.

2. The request must be physically possible

A favicon is a 32x32 icon.

Here's the icon from Hinduism.SE:

That's not too small for a recognizable Dharmachakra, for example:

I made the above image as follows:

• Copy "Unicode Symbol: ☸ (U+2638: Wheel Of Dharma)" from Wikipedia's Dharmachakra -- Symbol topic.
• Paste the symbol into Notepad, set the font to size 30 (using the default Consolas font family), take a screenshot, then select, copy, and paste

3. The SE developers must agree to implement it.

Let's see whether they do or can. The above-linked answer says,

The correct way to do this is to create a meta post (on Hinduism Meta, not the main meta) with the tag feature-request. Stack Exchange employees monitor that tag across all meta sites in the network. You should get an answer from them in due course, though it may take six to eight weeks before you get an answer, and then another arbitrary amount of time before anything is actually done.

P.S.: Different Stack Exchange sites have the same logo says it's important (for usability) that sites have dissimilar favicons.

The current "Bu" icon is similar to "B", "BH", "BI", "BC", and "BG" icons used by other sites.

How can we change the favicon of SE site in Beta? suggests it may be possible. I'd guess that:

1. The community on this site must agree to make the request

It sounds like a good request to me (so I upvoted your question, and I invite other users to upvote it too).

Perhaps (unless there's a reason to stay with blue) an appropriate color would be orange (or 'saffron') e.g. as suggested here and here.

2. The request must be physically possible

A favicon is a 32x32 icon.

Here's the icon from Hinduism.SE:

That's not too small for a recognizable Dharmachakra, for example:

I made the above image as follows:

• Copy "Unicode Symbol: ☸ (U+2638: Wheel Of Dharma)" from Wikipedia's Dharmachakra -- Symbol topic.
• Paste the symbol into Notepad, set the font to size 30 (using the default Consolas font family), take a screenshot, then select, copy, and paste

3. The SE developers must agree to implement it.

Let's see whether they do or can. The above-linked answer says,

The correct way to do this is to create a meta post (on Hinduism Meta, not the main meta) with the tag feature-request. Stack Exchange employees monitor that tag across all meta sites in the network. You should get an answer from them in due course, though it may take six to eight weeks before you get an answer, and then another arbitrary amount of time before anything is actually done.

P.S.: Different Stack Exchange sites have the same logo says it's important (for usability) that sites have dissimilar favicons.

The current "Bu" icon is similar to "B", "BH", "BI", "BC", and "BG" icons used by other sites.