diff --git a/core/banner.txt b/core/banner.txt
index 5016edeb8..f60db5c4d 100644
--- a/core/banner.txt
+++ b/core/banner.txt
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
-Welcome to
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-██╔════╝██╔══██╗██╔══██╗██╔════╝██╔════╝████╗*████║██╔══██╗██╔════╝██╔════╝ E
-███████╗██████╔╝███████║██║*****█████╗**██╔████╔██║███████║██║*****███████╗ T
-╚════██║██╔═══╝*██╔══██║██║*****██╔══╝**██║╚██╔╝██║██╔══██║██║*****╚════██║ A
-███████║██║*****██║**██║╚██████╗███████╗██║*╚═╝*██║██║**██║╚██████╗███████║
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+┏━━━┓
+┃┏━┓┃ Welcome to
+┃┗━━┓╋╋╋╋┏━━┓╋╋╋╋┏━━┓╋╋╋╋┏━━┓╋╋╋╋┏━━┓╋╋╋╋┏┓┏┓╋╋╋╋┏━━┓╋╋╋╋┏━━┓╋╋╋╋┏━━┓ b
+┗━━┓┃┏━━┓┃┏┓┃┏━━┓┃┏┓┃┏━━┓┃┏━┛┏━━┓┃┃━┫┏━━┓┃┗┛┃┏━━┓┃┏┓┃┏━━┓┃┏━┛┏━━┓┃━━┫ e
+┃┗━┛┃┗━━┛┃┗┛┃┗━━┛┃┏┓┃┗━━┛┃┗━┓┗━━┛┃┃━┫┗━━┛┃┃┃┃┗━━┛┃┏┓┃┗━━┛┃┗━┓┗━━┛┣━━┃ t
+┗━━━┛╋╋╋╋┃┏━┛╋╋╋╋┗┛┗┛╋╋╋╋┗━━┛╋╋╋╋┗━━┛╋╋╋╋┗┻┻┛╋╋╋╋┗┛┗┛╋╋╋╋┗━━┛╋╋╋╋┗━━┛ a
+╋╋╋╋╋╋╋╋╋┃┃
+╋╋╋╋╋╋╋╋╋┗┛
diff --git a/core/spacemacs-mode.el b/core/spacemacs-mode.el
index 1a98bbcfd..391f0aac4 100644
--- a/core/spacemacs-mode.el
+++ b/core/spacemacs-mode.el
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
       (copy-file (concat user-emacs-directory ".spacemacs.template") dotfile))
     (load dotfile)))
 
-(defvar spacemacs-title-length 74)
+(defvar spacemacs-title-length 68)
 (defvar loading-counter 0)
 (defvar loading-text "Loading")
 (defvar loading-done-text "Ready!")