# Ginormous icons after upgrade today **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/ginormous-icons-after-upgrade-today/103177 **Category:** Support **Created:** [30 november 2018 om 15:47 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ginormous-icons-after-upgrade-today/103177 "2018-11-30T15:47:03Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 11
### Author: ![david](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/david/32/157490_2.png) [@david](https://meta.discourse.org/u/david) #### Post date: [30 november 2018 om 16:17 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ginormous-icons-after-upgrade-today/103177/11 "2018-11-30T16:17:54Z")
It’s back online for me now, but it does look like the header is broken. Unfortunately the method we use for FontAwesome5 does not allow use of the CSS `:before`/`:after`. You will need to update the custom header according to the instructions @pmusaraj wrote here. If you have any issues I’m sure we can help you out > [@Introducing Font Awesome 5 and SVG icons](https://meta.discourse.org/t/introducing-font-awesome-5-and-svg-icons/101643): > > See also: [We're upgrading our icons to Font Awesome 6!](https://meta.discourse.org/t/were-upgrading-our-icons-to-font-awesome-6/325349) We will shortly merge into master a [branch](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/tree/fontawesome5) that upgrades Discourse to Font Awesome 5.5.0 (the free version) and switches to using SVG icons instead of an icon font. This is a substantial change, with lots of benefits, and one significant change for developers. Here is a quick rundown of the changes: using SVG icons will provide crisper icons, better for accessibility and easier to customize, see [this Github article](https://blog.github.com/2016-02-22-delivering-octicons-with-svg/) for more details since… --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ginormous-icons-after-upgrade-today/103177)._