diff --git a/images/icons/qgis-full.png b/images/icons/qgis-full.png
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..71430e59c8e
Binary files /dev/null and b/images/icons/qgis-full.png differ
diff --git a/images/images.qrc b/images/images.qrc
index 29cfcf65aeb..a2a7a5998ef 100644
--- a/images/images.qrc
+++ b/images/images.qrc
@@ -69,6 +69,7 @@
         <file>flags/ky.svg</file>
         <file>icons/qgis-icon-16x16.png</file>
         <file>icons/qgis-icon-60x60.png</file>
+        <file>icons/qgis-full.png</file>
         <file>icons/qbrowser_icon.svg</file>
         <file>north_arrows/default.png</file>
         <file>north_arrows/default.svg</file>
diff --git a/src/app/qgsabout.cpp b/src/app/qgsabout.cpp
index b4374e77680..f22c531a498 100644
--- a/src/app/qgsabout.cpp
+++ b/src/app/qgsabout.cpp
@@ -66,9 +66,6 @@ void QgsAbout::init()
 
   connect( developersMapView, &QgsWebView::linkClicked, this, &QgsAbout::openUrl );
 
-  // set the 60x60 icon pixmap
-  qgisIcon->setPixmap( QPixmap( QgsApplication::appIconPath() ) );
-
   //read the authors file to populate the svn committers list
   QStringList lines;
 
diff --git a/src/ui/qgsabout.ui b/src/ui/qgsabout.ui
index 82fee27c67d..358aa8c3f74 100644
--- a/src/ui/qgsabout.ui
+++ b/src/ui/qgsabout.ui
@@ -195,28 +195,15 @@
               <widget class="QLabel" name="qgisIcon">
                <property name="maximumSize">
                 <size>
-                 <width>60</width>
+                 <width>200</width>
                  <height>60</height>
                 </size>
                </property>
                <property name="pixmap">
-                <pixmap>:/images/icons/qgis-icon-60x60.png</pixmap>
+                <pixmap>:/images/icons/qgis-full.png</pixmap>
                </property>
                <property name="scaledContents">
-                <bool>false</bool>
-               </property>
-              </widget>
-             </item>
-             <item>
-              <widget class="QLabel" name="TextLabel4">
-               <property name="text">
-                <string>&lt;html&gt;&lt;head&gt;&lt;meta name=&quot;qrichtext&quot; content=&quot;1&quot; /&gt;&lt;style type=&quot;text/css&quot;&gt;
-p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; }
-&lt;/style&gt;&lt;/head&gt;&lt;body style=&quot; font-family:'Lucida Grande'; font-size:13pt; font-weight:400; font-style:normal;&quot;&gt;
-&lt;p style=&quot; margin-top:16px; margin-bottom:12px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; font-size:x-large; font-weight:600;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot; font-size:x-large;&quot;&gt;QGIS&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/body&gt;&lt;/html&gt;</string>
-               </property>
-               <property name="alignment">
-                <set>Qt::AlignCenter</set>
+                <bool>true</bool>
                </property>
               </widget>
              </item>