diff --git a/app/main/views/dashboard.py b/app/main/views/dashboard.py
index 3a02451ea..2ae4394b0 100644
--- a/app/main/views/dashboard.py
+++ b/app/main/views/dashboard.py
@@ -280,15 +280,8 @@ def get_dashboard_partials(service_id):
     all_statistics = template_statistics_client.get_template_statistics_for_service(service_id, limit_days=7)
     template_statistics = aggregate_template_usage(all_statistics)
     stats = aggregate_notifications_stats(all_statistics)
-    column_width, max_notifiction_count = get_column_properties(3)
 
     dashboard_totals = get_dashboard_totals(stats),
-    highest_notification_count = max(
-        sum(
-            value[key] for key in {'requested', 'failed', 'delivered'}
-        )
-        for key, value in dashboard_totals[0].items()
-    )
     free_sms_allowance = billing_api_client.get_free_sms_fragment_limit_for_year(
         current_service.id,
         get_current_financial_year(),
@@ -312,10 +305,6 @@ def get_dashboard_partials(service_id):
             'views/dashboard/_totals.html',
             service_id=service_id,
             statistics=dashboard_totals[0],
-            column_width=column_width,
-            smaller_font_size=(
-                highest_notification_count > max_notifiction_count
-            ),
         ),
         'template-statistics': render_template(
             'views/dashboard/template-statistics.html',
@@ -330,7 +319,6 @@ def get_dashboard_partials(service_id):
         ),
         'usage': render_template(
             'views/dashboard/_usage.html',
-            column_width=column_width,
             **calculate_usage(yearly_usage, free_sms_allowance),
         ),
     }
@@ -505,10 +493,3 @@ def get_tuples_of_financial_years(
         )
         for year in range(start, end + 1)
     )
-
-
-def get_column_properties(number_of_columns):
-    return {
-        2: ('column-half', 999999999),
-        3: ('column-third', 99999),
-    }.get(number_of_columns)
diff --git a/app/templates/views/dashboard/_totals.html b/app/templates/views/dashboard/_totals.html
index 778862a4c..b979d9b18 100644
--- a/app/templates/views/dashboard/_totals.html
+++ b/app/templates/views/dashboard/_totals.html
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 
 <div class="ajax-block-container">
   <div class="grid-row">
-    <div id="total-email" class="{{column_width}}">
+    <div id="total-email" class="column-third">
       {{ big_number_with_status(
         statistics['email']['requested'],
         message_count_label(statistics['email']['requested'], 'email', suffix='sent'),
@@ -12,10 +12,10 @@
         statistics['email']['show_warning'],
         failure_link=url_for(".view_notifications", service_id=service_id, message_type='email', status='failed'),
         link=url_for(".view_notifications", service_id=service_id, message_type='email', status='sending,delivered,failed'),
-        smaller=smaller_font_size
+        smaller=True,
       ) }}
     </div>
-    <div id="total-sms" class="{{column_width}}">
+    <div id="total-sms" class="column-third">
       {{ big_number_with_status(
         statistics['sms']['requested'],
         message_count_label(statistics['sms']['requested'], 'sms', suffix='sent'),
@@ -24,10 +24,10 @@
         statistics['sms']['show_warning'],
         failure_link=url_for(".view_notifications", service_id=service_id, message_type='sms', status='failed'),
         link=url_for(".view_notifications", service_id=service_id, message_type='sms', status='sending,delivered,failed'),
-        smaller=smaller_font_size
+        smaller=True,
       ) }}
     </div>
-    <div id="total-letters" class="{{column_width}}">
+    <div id="total-letters" class="column-third">
       {{ big_number_with_status(
         statistics['letter']['requested'],
         message_count_label(statistics['letter']['requested'], 'letter', suffix='sent'),
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
         statistics['letter']['show_warning'],
         failure_link=url_for(".view_notifications", service_id=service_id, message_type='letter', status='failed'),
         link=url_for(".view_notifications", service_id=service_id, message_type='letter', status=''),
-        smaller=smaller_font_size
+        smaller=True,
       ) }}
     </div>
   </div>
diff --git a/app/templates/views/dashboard/_usage.html b/app/templates/views/dashboard/_usage.html
index 6dc53b630..89a9b33d6 100644
--- a/app/templates/views/dashboard/_usage.html
+++ b/app/templates/views/dashboard/_usage.html
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 {% from "components/big-number.html" import big_number %}
 
 <div class='grid-row ajax-block-container'>
-  <div class='{{ column_width }}'>
+  <div class='column-third'>
     <div class="keyline-block">
       {{ big_number("Unlimited", 'free email allowance', smaller=True) }}
     </div>
   </div>
-  <div class='{{ column_width }}'>
+  <div class='column-third'>
     <div class="keyline-block">
       {% if sms_chargeable %}
         {{ big_number(
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
       {% endif %}
     </div>
   </div>
-  <div class='{{ column_width }}'>
+  <div class='column-third'>
     <div class="keyline-block">
       {{ big_number(
         letter_cost,
diff --git a/tests/app/main/views/test_dashboard.py b/tests/app/main/views/test_dashboard.py
index a75066840..fd95ee7b9 100644
--- a/tests/app/main/views/test_dashboard.py
+++ b/tests/app/main/views/test_dashboard.py
@@ -553,7 +553,7 @@ def test_should_not_show_recent_templates_on_dashboard_if_only_one_template_used
     expected_count = stats[0]['count']
     assert expected_count == 50
     assert normalize_spaces(
-        page.select_one('#total-sms .big-number').text
+        page.select_one('#total-sms .big-number-smaller').text
     ) == (
         '{} text messages sent'.format(expected_count)
     )
@@ -713,14 +713,13 @@ def test_should_show_upcoming_jobs_on_dashboard(
     ['email', 'sms'],
     ['email', 'sms', 'letter'],
 ))
-@pytest.mark.parametrize('totals, big_number_class', [
+@pytest.mark.parametrize('totals', [
     (
         {
             'email': {'requested': 0, 'delivered': 0, 'failed': 0},
             'sms': {'requested': 99999, 'delivered': 0, 'failed': 0},
             'letter': {'requested': 99999, 'delivered': 0, 'failed': 0}
         },
-        '.big-number',
     ),
     (
         {
@@ -728,7 +727,6 @@ def test_should_show_upcoming_jobs_on_dashboard(
             'sms': {'requested': 0, 'delivered': 0, 'failed': 0},
             'letter': {'requested': 100000, 'delivered': 0, 'failed': 0},
         },
-        '.big-number-smaller',
     ),
 ])
 def test_correct_font_size_for_big_numbers(
@@ -743,7 +741,6 @@ def test_correct_font_size_for_big_numbers(
     service_one,
     permissions,
     totals,
-    big_number_class,
 ):
 
     service_one['permissions'] = permissions
@@ -758,11 +755,12 @@ def test_correct_font_size_for_big_numbers(
         service_id=service_one['id'],
     )
 
-    assert len(page.select_one('[data-key=totals]').select('.column-third')) == 3
-    assert len(page.select_one('[data-key=usage]').select('.column-third')) == 3
-
-    assert len(
-        page.select('.big-number-with-status {}'.format(big_number_class))
+    assert (
+        len(page.select_one('[data-key=totals]').select('.column-third'))
+    ) == (
+        len(page.select_one('[data-key=usage]').select('.column-third'))
+    ) == (
+        len(page.select('.big-number-with-status .big-number-smaller'))
     ) == 3