Reproducible here with same version on Win 10.

I've googled and it looks like this problem occurs from time to time back as far as 2015, and plenty of people complaining about the bug, but I've not found a resolution yet.

Thanks for the report.

CL:  
https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+log/59d51f9a4cea0fd3d0c27eaf069442b9f556ea9a..d1b22fc961b1a2677c32f61a2a5640850b66adb9

might be related to md-settings, https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/2676e97c1a42b7898fbc09176ab94b59bf1c421d
pkasting@, could you please check and help.

Note:
1. Good Build: 53.0.2748.0
Bad Build: 53.0.2750.0
2. Able to reproduce the issue on Win7 using Chrome Beta 53.0.2785.34, Dev 54.0.2816.0 and Canary 54.0.2817.0; but in Stable 52.0.2743.82 it is showing yellow(normal) icon for bookmark folders.
3. Seeing the grey/shaded bookmarks folders in Mac OSX 10.11.6 & Ubuntu 14.04 using Stable # 52.0.2743.82 (attached screenshot for reference)

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I think the solid-black icons on Windows look bad, but Evan is the one who vectorized these and knows what the design intent was/how much we've implemented that design.

Oops, this is something we need to fix. Luckily it's a ~1 liner: we just need to remove the MD check here: https://cs.chromium.org/chromium/src/chrome/browser/ui/bookmarks/bookmark_utils.cc?rcl=1470295099&l=289

We want to keep the icons yellow on Windows. There was vociferous push back when we turned them grey before. In the long run we want to vectorize them (see bug 564112), but leaving the old yellow pngs in place for now is preferable to having them be grey like on cros.

Moving this nonessential bug to the next milestone.

For more details visit https://www.chromium.org/issue-tracking/autotriage - Your friendly Sheriffbot

The following revision refers to this bug:
  https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git/+/055a5526ac6933493707b6c9698d739ab56fb7b1

commit 055a5526ac6933493707b6c9698d739ab56fb7b1
Author: estade <estade@chromium.org>
Date: Fri Aug 05 21:45:24 2016

Stick with old yellow bookmark folder icons on Windows, even in MD.

BUG= 633013 

Review-Url: https://codereview.chromium.org/2210993002
Cr-Commit-Position: refs/heads/master@{#410171}

[modify] https://crrev.com/055a5526ac6933493707b6c9698d739ab56fb7b1/chrome/browser/ui/bookmarks/bookmark_utils.cc

Your change meets the bar and is auto-approved for M53 (branch: 2785)

The following revision refers to this bug:
  https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git/+/09b66b79a64e9fe7a4918fa0d4c4b91363de37c6

commit 09b66b79a64e9fe7a4918fa0d4c4b91363de37c6
Author: Evan Stade <estade@chromium.org>
Date: Mon Aug 08 16:15:17 2016

Stick with old yellow bookmark folder icons on Windows, even in MD.

BUG= 633013 

Review-Url: https://codereview.chromium.org/2210993002
Cr-Commit-Position: refs/heads/master@{#410171}
(cherry picked from commit 055a5526ac6933493707b6c9698d739ab56fb7b1)

Review URL: https://codereview.chromium.org/2227503004 .

Cr-Commit-Position: refs/branch-heads/2785@{#526}
Cr-Branched-From: 68623971be0cfc492a2cb0427d7f478e7b214c24-refs/heads/master@{#403382}

[modify] https://crrev.com/09b66b79a64e9fe7a4918fa0d4c4b91363de37c6/chrome/browser/ui/bookmarks/bookmark_utils.cc

this is verified because they filed a bug here:  bug 635389  (which is WAI)

Issue 635949 has been merged into this issue.

Verified the issue from Chrome-TE end on Windows 10 using chrome latest Beta M53-53.0.2785.57 and observed no issues while creating new bookmark folder on the bookmark bar. Hence adding TE-Verified label.

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