# Icons change color on hover with delay
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/icons-change-color-on-hover-with-delay/268464
**Category:** UX
**Created:** [June 15, 2023, 2:22pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/icons-change-color-on-hover-with-delay/268464 "2023-06-15T14:22:46Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@manuel](https://meta.discourse.org/u/manuel)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2023, 2:22pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/icons-change-color-on-hover-with-delay/268464/1 "2023-06-15T14:22:46Z")
Idk if this had been like that and I only noticed now, or if this is a regression. Icons on buttons with icon and text change their color slightly later then the text. It’s pretty visible when you have a strong hover contrast:
But it seems to happen all the time, e.g. here on meta:
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### Author:  [@Canapin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Canapin)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2023, 2:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/icons-change-color-on-hover-with-delay/268464/2 "2023-06-15T14:26:02Z")
Hi nolo!
I also noticed this. Buttons’ background and text color don’t have a `transition` attribute, whereas icons have (which targets `color`, to add extra details), hence the delay.
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### Author:  [@manuel](https://meta.discourse.org/u/manuel)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2023, 2:34pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/icons-change-color-on-hover-with-delay/268464/3 "2023-06-15T14:34:34Z")
Yes, with
```plaintext
.btn-primary .d-icon,
.btn .d-icon {
transition: unset;
}
```
it’s snappy. So is there a reason for the transition?
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### Author:  [@Canapin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Canapin)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2023, 2:44pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/icons-change-color-on-hover-with-delay/268464/4 "2023-06-15T14:44:11Z")
I shall ask our design Wizards! 🖌 🧙
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### Author:  [@awesomerobot](https://meta.discourse.org/u/awesomerobot)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2023, 2:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/icons-change-color-on-hover-with-delay/268464/6 "2023-06-16T14:49:57Z")
Thanks for reporting it! Will be fixed here:
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/22157](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/22157)
We already have transitions on most buttons, so this gets us back to consistency. We’ve always had transitions on buttons so removing them would be a bigger change.