diff --git a/app/assets/sass/uswds/_uswds-theme-custom-styles.scss b/app/assets/sass/uswds/_uswds-theme-custom-styles.scss
index ed7b9aa70..6d53a4d04 100644
--- a/app/assets/sass/uswds/_uswds-theme-custom-styles.scss
+++ b/app/assets/sass/uswds/_uswds-theme-custom-styles.scss
@@ -224,3 +224,8 @@ td.table-empty-message {
       outline-offset: units(1);
    }
 }
+
+.spark-bar-bar {
+   font-size: units(3);
+   background-color: transparent;
+}
diff --git a/app/templates/components/table.html b/app/templates/components/table.html
index 96e110f48..9a02845fc 100644
--- a/app/templates/components/table.html
+++ b/app/templates/components/table.html
@@ -183,16 +183,14 @@
   id=None
 ) %}
   {% call field(align='right') %}
-    {% if id %}
-      <style nonce="{{ csp_nonce() }}">
-        #{{id}} .spark-bar-bar {
-          width: {{ count / max_count * 100 }}%;
-        }
-      </style>
-    {% endif %}
     <span {% if id %}id="{{ id }}"{% endif %} class="spark-bar">
       <span class="spark-bar-bar">
-        {{ '{:,.0f}'.format(count) }}
+        {{ '{:,.0f}'.format(count) }} 
+          {% if count == 1 -%}
+            message sent
+          {% else -%}
+            messages sent
+          {% endif %}
       </span>
     </span>
   {% endcall %}
diff --git a/tests/app/main/views/test_dashboard.py b/tests/app/main/views/test_dashboard.py
index beb7c87e9..e6d5b12ca 100644
--- a/tests/app/main/views/test_dashboard.py
+++ b/tests/app/main/views/test_dashboard.py
@@ -556,7 +556,8 @@ def test_should_show_monthly_breakdown_of_template_usage(
     assert ' '.join(table_rows[0].text.split()) == (
         'My first template '
         'Text message template '
-        '2'
+        '2 '
+        'messages sent'
     )
 
     assert len(table_rows) == len(['October'])