diff --git a/app/javascript/src/styles/base/000_vars.scss b/app/javascript/src/styles/base/000_vars.scss
index 348a0e35e..a6c2fdb8b 100644
--- a/app/javascript/src/styles/base/000_vars.scss
+++ b/app/javascript/src/styles/base/000_vars.scss
@@ -88,3 +88,16 @@ $success_color: hsl(120, 100%, 95%); // light green
   margin: 2px;
   text-align: center;
 }
+
+// https://fontawesome.com/how-to-use/on-the-web/advanced/css-pseudo-elements
+@mixin fa-icon($family, $weight, $content) {
+  display: inline-block;
+  font-style: normal;
+  font-variant: normal;
+  text-rendering: auto;
+  -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;
+
+  font-family: $family;
+  font-weight: $weight;
+  content: $content;
+}
diff --git a/app/javascript/src/styles/common/dtext.scss b/app/javascript/src/styles/common/dtext.scss
index 41e61f29f..d9fbdb9a1 100644
--- a/app/javascript/src/styles/common/dtext.scss
+++ b/app/javascript/src/styles/common/dtext.scss
@@ -88,16 +88,13 @@ div.prose {
     }
   }
 
-  // https://fontawesome.com/how-to-use/on-the-web/advanced/css-pseudo-elements
   a.dtext-external-link::after {
-    display: none;
-    font: 900 1em "Font Awesome 5 Free";
-    content: "\f35d"; // https://fontawesome.com/icons/external-link-alt?style=solid
-  }
+    // https://fontawesome.com/icons/external-link-alt?style=solid
+    @include fa-icon("Font Awesome 5 Free", 900, "\f35d");
 
-  a.dtext-external-link svg {
-    width: 0.75em;
-    padding-left: 0.25em;
+    font-size: 0.6em;
+    padding: 0 0.2em 0 0.3em;
+    vertical-align: 1px;
   }
 }