diff --git a/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/templates/mobile/discovery/categories.js.handlebars b/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/templates/mobile/discovery/categories.js.handlebars
index fb4038a4420..02096396860 100644
--- a/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/templates/mobile/discovery/categories.js.handlebars
+++ b/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/templates/mobile/discovery/categories.js.handlebars
@@ -5,8 +5,8 @@
         <th class="main-link">
           {{category-link this allowUncategorized=true}}
         </th>
-        <th class='num posts'>{{i18n posts}}</th>
-        <th class='num age'>{{i18n age}}</th>
+        <th class='num'>{{i18n posts}}</th>
+        <th class='num'>{{i18n age}}</th>
       </tr>
 
       {{#if description_excerpt}}
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@
               {{/if}}
             </div>
           </td>
-          <td class='num posts'><span class='badge-posts'>{{number posts_count}}</span></td>
+          <td class='num posts'>{{number posts_count}}</td>
           <td class='num age'><span class="{{cold-age-class created_at}}" title='{{raw-date created_at}}'>{{{age created_at}}}</span></td>
         </tr>
       {{/each}}
diff --git a/app/assets/stylesheets/common/components/badges.css.scss b/app/assets/stylesheets/common/components/badges.css.scss
index a94452a959a..24e712ea528 100644
--- a/app/assets/stylesheets/common/components/badges.css.scss
+++ b/app/assets/stylesheets/common/components/badges.css.scss
@@ -21,10 +21,6 @@
   white-space: nowrap;
   display: inline-block;
   line-height: 1;
-  i.fa {
-    font-size: 11px;
-    vertical-align: 1px;
-  }
 }
 .badge-wrapper {
   white-space: nowrap;
diff --git a/app/assets/stylesheets/mobile/topic-list.scss b/app/assets/stylesheets/mobile/topic-list.scss
index a5472796322..b2f82f8daf0 100644
--- a/app/assets/stylesheets/mobile/topic-list.scss
+++ b/app/assets/stylesheets/mobile/topic-list.scss
@@ -133,6 +133,7 @@
   th .badge-category {
     float: left;
     margin: 1px 4px 0 0;
+    font-size: 110%;
   }
   .posters {
     float: left;