Setup

standard SearXNG via Docker
version 2025.10.18+ee6d4f322
relevant settings.yml entries:

search:
  favicon_resolver: "duckduckgo"

Problem

Currently favicons are displayed by default with

--color-favicon-background-color: #ddd;
--color-favicon-border-color: #ccc;

imo this way they look bad

First of all, is this normal behavior? Did i miss a setting somewhere?
Otherwise what i am currently doing is simply modifying searx/static/themes/simple/css/searxng-ltr.min.css by appending

:root{--color-favicon-background-color:transparent!important;--color-favicon-border-color:transparent!important;}

then re-compressing searxng-ltr.min.css.gz and searxng-ltr.min.css.br.
Now they look like this, which imo fits the dark theme better:

..i guess some icons are still going to look bad because they don't have transparency themselves, like:

but i'd argue that transparency looks best overall

If this is actually intended behavior, would it instead make sense for it to become a dedicated setting in settings.yml?

Cheers!