# 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: ![jordan.vidrine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jordan.vidrine/32/515563_2.png) [@jordan.vidrine](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jordan.vidrine)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2025, 8:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-header-dropdown-notification-menu-styles/369574/44 "2025-06-12T20:59:17Z")

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> [@awesomerobot](#):
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> Maybe the dot with the notification type icon is similar enough that we don’t need another one on the right?

Yes I kind of now am seeing that the icon w/ bg color _sort_ of acts as a “blue” dot notification.

> [@awesomerobot](#):
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> (would it work with the lighter tertiary color to match?)

 ![CleanShot 2025-06-12 at 16.04.56@2x](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/4/a/3/4a373c232d6cd99843e1fc9a6f708b157f9cd519.png)

Hmm… I am not sure of this. With the icon there the contrast is iffy. We could always change the icon color too though.

> [@awesomerobot](#):
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> I am missing the second line for the title, 3 words is so short!

I think we’ve had enough feedback that people prefer more words than truncation. I’ll take that out.

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