Chat avatar size increase in sidebar [brought to core]

chapoi · July 3, 2025, 4:26pm

This has been merged into core as of 2025-07-03T06:00:00Z

github.com/discourse/discourse

UX: increase chat avatar & icon sizing in sidebar

main ← chat-avatar-sizing

merged 02:00PM - 03 Jul 25 UTC

chapoi

+13 -3

Moving this design experiment into core. Slight increase of avatar sizing in …sidebar: | Before | After | |--------|--------| |![image](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/894c1c64-30ad-423b-8bc2-685c1b227433)| ![image](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/ee4d2f26-6707-4532-b3fd-62b6835a9142) | And in general of the other prefixes also a spacing increase (to keep alignment) and mini size increase: | Before | After | |--------|--------| | ![CleanShot 2025-07-03 at 14 43 19@2x](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/fb0c7f51-96a7-43b2-9fca-abd6c5532287) | ![CleanShot 2025-07-03 at 14 41 58@2x](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/f192a3a9-9bb6-4631-889f-71c13e6e9698) |

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