diff --git a/apps/imagegen/identicon/core/src/main/java/com/docuverse/identicon/NineBlockIdenticonRenderer2.java b/apps/imagegen/identicon/core/src/main/java/com/docuverse/identicon/NineBlockIdenticonRenderer2.java
index 559e1a1a8..9a81a378b 100644
--- a/apps/imagegen/identicon/core/src/main/java/com/docuverse/identicon/NineBlockIdenticonRenderer2.java
+++ b/apps/imagegen/identicon/core/src/main/java/com/docuverse/identicon/NineBlockIdenticonRenderer2.java
@@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ public class NineBlockIdenticonRenderer2 implements IdenticonRenderer {
 	}
 
 	public BufferedImage render(BigInteger code, int size) {
-		return renderQuilt(code.intValue(), size);
+		return renderQuilt(null, code.intValue(), size);
 	}
 
 	/**
@@ -172,10 +172,22 @@ public class NineBlockIdenticonRenderer2 implements IdenticonRenderer {
 	 * @return identicon image
 	 */
 	public BufferedImage render(int code, int size) {
-		return renderQuilt(code, size);
+		return renderQuilt(null, code, size);
 	}
 
-	protected BufferedImage renderQuilt(int code, int size) {
+	/**
+	 *  @param g custom Graphics2D or null
+	 *  @since 0.9.64
+	 */
+	public BufferedImage render(Graphics2D g, int code, int size) {
+		return renderQuilt(g, code, size);
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 *  @param gg custom Graphics2D or null
+	 *  @since 0.9.64
+	 */
+	protected BufferedImage renderQuilt(Graphics2D gg, int code, int size) {
 		// -------------------------------------------------
 		// PREPARE
 		//
@@ -220,9 +232,15 @@ public class NineBlockIdenticonRenderer2 implements IdenticonRenderer {
 		// RENDER
 		//
 
-		BufferedImage targetImage = new BufferedImage(size, size,
-				BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_RGB);
-		Graphics2D g = targetImage.createGraphics();
+		BufferedImage targetImage = null;
+		Graphics2D g;
+		if (gg != null) {
+			g = gg;
+		} else {
+			targetImage = new BufferedImage(size, size,
+					BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_RGB);
+			g = targetImage.createGraphics();
+                }
 		g.setRenderingHint(RenderingHints.KEY_ANTIALIASING,
 				RenderingHints.VALUE_ANTIALIAS_ON);
 
@@ -256,7 +274,8 @@ public class NineBlockIdenticonRenderer2 implements IdenticonRenderer {
 		drawPatch(g, 0, blockSize2, blockSize, cornerType, cornerTurn++,
 				cornerInvert, fillColor, strokeColor);
 
-		g.dispose();
+		if (gg == null)
+			g.dispose();
 
 		return targetImage;
 	}
diff --git a/apps/imagegen/imagegen/build.xml b/apps/imagegen/imagegen/build.xml
index 68cb47660..39252ef8b 100644
--- a/apps/imagegen/imagegen/build.xml
+++ b/apps/imagegen/imagegen/build.xml
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
         <pathelement location="../identicon/build/identicon.jar" />
         <pathelement location="../zxing/build/zxing.jar" />
         <pathelement location="../../../build/i2p.jar" />
+        <pathelement location="../../../build/jrobin.jar" />
     </path>
 
     <target name="all" depends="war" />
diff --git a/apps/imagegen/imagegen/webapp/src/main/java/net/i2p/imagegen/IdenticonServlet.java b/apps/imagegen/imagegen/webapp/src/main/java/net/i2p/imagegen/IdenticonServlet.java
index 63778a4cd..989009ae9 100644
--- a/apps/imagegen/imagegen/webapp/src/main/java/net/i2p/imagegen/IdenticonServlet.java
+++ b/apps/imagegen/imagegen/webapp/src/main/java/net/i2p/imagegen/IdenticonServlet.java
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ import com.docuverse.identicon.NineBlockIdenticonRenderer2;
 
 import net.i2p.I2PAppContext;
 import net.i2p.data.Hash;
+import net.i2p.rrd4j.SimpleSVGGraphics2D;
 import net.i2p.util.ConvertToHash;
 import net.i2p.util.Log;
 
@@ -67,10 +68,10 @@ public class IdenticonServlet extends HttpServlet {
 	private static final String PARAM_IDENTICON_SIZE_SHORT = "s";
 	private static final String PARAM_IDENTICON_CODE_SHORT = "c";
 	private static final String IDENTICON_IMAGE_FORMAT = "PNG";
-	private static final String IDENTICON_IMAGE_MIMETYPE = "image/png";
+	private static final String IDENTICON_IMAGE_MIMETYPE = "image/svg+xml";
 	private static final long DEFAULT_IDENTICON_EXPIRES_IN_MILLIS = 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000;
 	private int version = 1;
-	private final IdenticonRenderer renderer = new NineBlockIdenticonRenderer2();
+	private final NineBlockIdenticonRenderer2 renderer = new NineBlockIdenticonRenderer2();
 	private IdenticonCache cache;
 	private long identiconExpiresInMillis = DEFAULT_IDENTICON_EXPIRES_IN_MILLIS;
 
@@ -147,6 +148,7 @@ public class IdenticonServlet extends HttpServlet {
 			// retrieve image bytes from either cache or renderer
 			if (cache == null
 					|| (imageBytes = cache.get(identiconETag)) == null) {
+/*
 				ByteArrayOutputStream byteOut = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
 				RenderedImage image;
 				try {
@@ -160,6 +162,20 @@ public class IdenticonServlet extends HttpServlet {
 				}
 				ImageIO.write(image, IDENTICON_IMAGE_FORMAT, byteOut);
 				imageBytes = byteOut.toByteArray();
+*/
+				SimpleSVGGraphics2D g = new SimpleSVGGraphics2D(size, size);
+				try {
+					renderer.render(g, code, size);
+				} catch (Throwable t) {
+					// java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class java.awt.GraphicsEnvironment$LocalGE
+					Log log = I2PAppContext.getGlobalContext().logManager().getLog(IdenticonServlet.class);
+					//log.logAlways(Log.WARN, "Identicon render failure: " + t);
+					log.error("Identicon render failure", t);
+					response.setStatus(403);
+					return;
+				}
+				String s = g.getSVG();
+				imageBytes = s.getBytes("UTF-8");
 				if (cache != null)
 					cache.add(identiconETag, imageBytes);
 			} else {
@@ -178,6 +194,7 @@ public class IdenticonServlet extends HttpServlet {
 
 			// return image bytes to requester
 			response.setContentType(IDENTICON_IMAGE_MIMETYPE);
+			response.setCharacterEncoding("UTF-8");
 			response.setHeader("X-Content-Type-Options", "nosniff");
 			response.setHeader("Accept-Ranges", "none");
 			response.setContentLength(imageBytes.length);