Color override in Picture-elements state-icon

Hello everyone!
It all worked perfectly until this color update (December 2022, I guess?)
In my picture-elements card I had all active icon colors configured by using the style element and
“–paper-item-icon-color”

After the update the icons now take their own colors. For example, the climate entity icon is red in the heating mode. And the “–paper-item-icon-color” has no effect!
How do I force a certain active-icon color now?
I have card-mod installed, but after a few tries I did not manage to change the icon color using it.