diff --git a/assets/css/bobastyle.css b/assets/css/bobastyle.css
index db4f1c7..370b23c 100644
--- a/assets/css/bobastyle.css
+++ b/assets/css/bobastyle.css
@@ -299,6 +299,11 @@ table.simple tbody tr:nth-child(even) {
   vertical-align: sub;
 }
 
+/* workarounds for some icons from jam-icons being non-square aspect ratio */
+.icon-code {
+  width: 1.25em;
+}
+
 /* }}} */
 
 
diff --git a/layouts/_partials/icon_code.html b/layouts/_partials/icon_code.html
index f5003c2..940980a 100644
--- a/layouts/_partials/icon_code.html
+++ b/layouts/_partials/icon_code.html
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {{- $icon_resource := resources.Get (printf "jam/icons/%s.svg" .) -}}
 {{- $icon := $icon_resource.Content -}}
-{{- $icon = replaceRE `<svg` `<svg class="icon"` $icon -}}
+{{- $icon = replaceRE `<svg` (printf `<svg class="icon icon-%s"` .) $icon -}}
 {{- $icon = replaceRE `</svg>` (printf `<title>%s icon</title></svg>` .) $icon -}}
 {{- $icon = replaceRE `(width|height)="[0-9]*"` "" $icon -}}
 {{- $icon | safeHTML -}}