The svg icons included in notmuch-emacs cannot be correctly rendered by emacs-mac (https://bitbucket.org/mituharu/emacs-mac/src/master/), which uses OSX's builtin frameworks instead of imagemagick to render images. The empty SVG created by `svg-image' function from svg.el has XML attribute `xmlns' like: " " which is missing from SVG icons defined in `notmuch-tag.el' Thanks. -- LDB