# Rebuilding the Meta Branded theme: New icons, a custom homepage, and a first look at the Blocks API

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/rebuilding-the-meta-branded-theme-new-icons-a-custom-homepage-and-a-first-look-at-the-blocks-api/400013
**Category:** Site feedback
**Tags:** meta-redesign-2026
**Created:** [7 april 2026 om 09:44 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rebuilding-the-meta-branded-theme-new-icons-a-custom-homepage-and-a-first-look-at-the-blocks-api/400013 "2026-04-07T09:44:00Z")
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### Author: ![Canapin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/canapin/32/119591_2.png) [@Canapin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Canapin)
#### Post date: [10 april 2026 om 11:50 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rebuilding-the-meta-branded-theme-new-icons-a-custom-homepage-and-a-first-look-at-the-blocks-api/400013/19 "2026-04-10T11:50:45Z")

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The new meta branded theme has too much spacing to my taste on mobile.

- 1s spacing between the screen border and the content’s container
- 2nd spacing between the page’s container and the actual content

Other themes don’t have this first gap between the screen border and the content container.

It makes the content a bit “crushed” horizontally; there’s very little room. It’s well visible on the “my post” page, compared to Horizon:

 ![Screenshot_20260410_014714_Chrome](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/b/c/5/bc59595c68fa3b325d148d92383fbd50261bf5ee.jpeg)  
 ![Screenshot_20260410_024000_Chrome](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/f/f/3/ff3fc1dd5f7a2244d7eabbb823947de72da1069a.jpeg)

Horizon can show much more content without losing readability.

I understand the intent of the purple “outline” background so the brand aspect of the theme is visible on a full-content page, but I think we lose too much space on those narrow screens.

Another small criticisms:

 ![Screenshot_20260410_133453_Chrome](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/a/6/b/a6bad27d3ee777af3b25a962b41b52f4664a4a52.jpeg)

The icon on the top left is not perfectly round. It’s very slightly oblate.  
 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/c/7/e/c7e4d3bad198cce00a7ea846084d5e7a10ac03a7.png) ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/0/9/1/0918196c92eb0cebd16b1ccbd2a0271d3243a287.png)

The bottom icons are slightly stretched, but vertically:

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/4/3/e/43eec147bd379806ef26802c358d2243b7dda4c4.png)

The category/tag pop-up lets the textarea bleed slightly (not sure it’s related to this theme):

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/1/0/3/1037871ed35958f75837366a78352e3f269c30bd.png). It would be better if it covered it.

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