A while back I decided to shift from using post type icons next to each blog post, in a tumblr style fashion, and instead switch to using icons for each of the four categories on the site. The icons are actually the Font Awesome typeface.
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Maybe as custom post types receive a face-lift in 3.6 I will switch back to custom post types, but this works much better stylistically and architecturally for now.