It´s posible, for future updates, change all letter avatars to an html element with css for improve load performance with minor request? Sorry for my english, i´m not native speaker.
This was discussed a lot in the past. There is no way to get a clean and consistent letter avatar using HTML and CSS, browsers have quirks and it will not be consistent across all browsers.
SVG is a possibility but email clients tend to barf hard on SVG. There is a reason we made it the way we did and a ton of research went into it. Feel free to search.