accessible favicon (light/dark)

[iamdtms]

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Are GitHub planning a light & a dark favicon for different desktop modes? Or just one fits in every theme?
https://github.com/community/community/assets/11964785/f792a2fe-e580-4a0e-9534-885fcbb0e3c6

Thank you for let me know: T

[david-clark-1043]

It looks like they have added this, but it respects only the selection of theme for github, not the browser. This also causes a mismatch.
The top 'github' in this picture is my bookmark bar.

[shahzad233]

it looks like they have added but it looks like mismatch so they prefer theme on brower.

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[cehfisher]

Hello @iamdtms - thank you for providing this feedback! We will file this with our Accessibility team so that it can be reviewed and will follow-up here with any additional questions or updates. Thanks again!

[ericwbailey]

Hey @iamdtms, thanks for reporting this. I'm a member of the GitHub accessibility team, and I've been tasked with this report. I'm also someone who's into favicon design, so this one was of particular interest to me.

I did some digging through our favicon commit history, and it looks like other people internally had the same questions you did about our favicon treatment. Long story short: browsers aggressively and heavily cache favicons, and some treat bookmarked favicons differently than ones displayed in live browser tabs.

Because of this, the current treatment is intentional. It is a balancing act between minding the caching and the desktop experience we'd like the majority experience to have.

I also wanted to say thank you for taking the time and effort to report this. This sort of feedback helps us both directly and indirectly improve the product, so we appreciate it!

[iamdtms]

Fits for prefer-color-scheme preference, looks fantastic. Happy to be a part of this discussions, thank you for collaboration, @ericwbailey.

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