Face of counsel-recentf candidates are being affected by ivy-virtual.

[Yevgnen]

This happens when ivy-virtual-abbreviate is set to 'full.

Test file

(package-initialize)

(setq ivy-use-virtual-buffers t
      ivy-virtual-abbreviate 'full)

(custom-set-faces
 '(ivy-virtual ((t (:foreground "red" :weight bold)))))

(recentf-mode 1)

(require 'ivy)
(ivy-mode 1)

(require 'counsel)
(counsel-mode 1)

Run counsel-recentf to open some files, the run ivy-switch-buffer, again run counsel-recentf will see the differences, as

[abo-abo]

Thanks, this should fix it.