# New header dropdown / notification menu styles

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-header-dropdown-notification-menu-styles/369574
**Category:** UX
**Tags:** feedback, design-experiment
**Created:** [June 10, 2025, 4:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-header-dropdown-notification-menu-styles/369574 "2025-06-10T16:49:41Z")
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### 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: [June 12, 2025, 4:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-header-dropdown-notification-menu-styles/369574/41 "2025-06-12T16:55:01Z")

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![SCR-20250612-prdx](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/9/1/9/91987e2dcb1735e91a614e2041dd9699d9e256bd.png)

My blue unread dots seem a little zig-zaggy, and are causing the descriptions to be truncated quite early.

Maybe we don’t need the dots at all now that read notifications are “greyed out”?

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