diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
index aa2484c2e07..29cd3f03ca9 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ v 8.11.0 (unreleased)
   - API: List access requests, request access, approve, and deny access requests to a project or a group. !4833
   - Use long options for curl examples in documentation !5703 (winniehell)
   - Remove magic comments (`# encoding: UTF-8`) from Ruby files. !5456 (winniehell)
+  - Fix badge count alignment (ClemMakesApps)
   - GitLab Performance Monitoring can now track custom events such as the number of tags pushed to a repository
   - Add support for relative links starting with ./ or / to RelativeLinkFilter (winniehell)
   - Allow naming U2F devices !5833
diff --git a/app/assets/stylesheets/framework/nav.scss b/app/assets/stylesheets/framework/nav.scss
index 7852fc9a424..9e924f99e9c 100644
--- a/app/assets/stylesheets/framework/nav.scss
+++ b/app/assets/stylesheets/framework/nav.scss
@@ -72,6 +72,7 @@
       font-weight: normal;
       background-color: #eee;
       color: #78a;
+      vertical-align: baseline;
     }
   }