diff --git a/demo-project/pyproject.toml b/demo-project/pyproject.toml
index 0be0a5449b..ec7bd06726 100644
--- a/demo-project/pyproject.toml
+++ b/demo-project/pyproject.toml
@@ -15,3 +15,8 @@ known_third_party = "kedro"
 addopts = """
 --cov-report term-missing \
 --cov src/demo_project -ra"""
+
+docs = [
+    "kedro-sphinx-theme",
+    "sphinx-favicon",
+]
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diff --git a/docs/source/conf.py b/docs/source/conf.py
index 7a21f6e72e..76de4d09ca 100644
--- a/docs/source/conf.py
+++ b/docs/source/conf.py
@@ -41,8 +41,12 @@
     "myst_parser",
     "notfound.extension",
     "sphinxcontrib.jquery",
+    'sphinx_favicon',
 ]
 
+favicons = [
+    "https://kedro.org/images/favicon.ico",
+]
 
 # Add any paths that contain templates here, relative to this directory.
 templates_path = ["_templates"]
@@ -57,6 +61,7 @@
     "kedro-datasets": ("https://docs.kedro.org/projects/kedro-datasets/en/kedro-datasets-3.0.0/", None),
 }
 
+
 # -- Options for HTML output -------------------------------------------------
 
 # The theme to use for HTML and HTML Help pages.  See the documentation for
@@ -78,7 +83,6 @@
     "github_url": "https://github.com/kedro-org/kedro/tree/main/docs/source",
 }
 
-
 def _override_permalinks_icon(app):
     # https://github.com/readthedocs/sphinx_rtd_theme/issues/98#issuecomment-1503211439
     app.config.html_permalinks_icon = "¶"
@@ -86,4 +90,4 @@ def _override_permalinks_icon(app):
 
 def setup(app):
     app.connect("builder-inited", _override_permalinks_icon)
-    
+    
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diff --git a/package/setup.py b/package/setup.py
index e04cda700f..091248c57e 100644
--- a/package/setup.py
+++ b/package/setup.py
@@ -52,10 +52,11 @@
     },
     extras_require={
         "docs": [
-            "kedro-sphinx-theme==2024.4.0",
+            "kedro-sphinx-theme @ git+https://github.com/kedro-org/kedro-sphinx-theme.git@fix-favicon",
         ],
         "aws": ["s3fs>=2021.4"],
         "azure": ["adlfs>=2021.4"],
         "gcp": ["gcsfs>=2021.4"],
     },
 )
+