# 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: ![mcwumbly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/mcwumbly/32/103861_2.png) [@mcwumbly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mcwumbly)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2025, 5:37pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-header-dropdown-notification-menu-styles/369574/5 "2025-06-10T17:37:27Z")

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A few first impressions:

For Default and Horizon:

- Like Keegan, the spacing feels a bit tight to me
- Having no shading in the negative space between items makes it feel busier to me, compared to when that all blended together

Horizon-specific:

- On Horizon, the items’ background have color – should there be? (On Default, its now gray).
- On Horizon, the rounded corners in the top left look off to me… the container looks sharper than the items within – on Default, it feels like they match better.

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