diff --git a/tabby-terminal/src/frontends/xtermFrontend.ts b/tabby-terminal/src/frontends/xtermFrontend.ts
index 4544c3b8..9eb08004 100644
--- a/tabby-terminal/src/frontends/xtermFrontend.ts
+++ b/tabby-terminal/src/frontends/xtermFrontend.ts
@@ -334,7 +334,7 @@ export class XTermFrontend extends Frontend {
                 activeMatchColorOverviewRuler: '#ffff00',
                 matchBorder: '#cc0',
                 activeMatchBorder: '#ff0',
-                activeMatchBackground: 'rgba(255, 255, 0, 0.3)',
+                activeMatchBackground: 'rgba(255, 255, 0, 0.125)',
             },
         }
     }