No Standard Way to Serve Different Favicons for Dark and Light Mode
Websites cannot easily serve different favicons based on the user's OS color scheme preference, forcing either an ugly favicon in one mode or complex workarounds. The 663 upvotes indicate this is a widely shared frustration among web developers. No HTML or browser API standard cleanly solves the problem across all browsers.
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