User blog comment:Anonymoustyd/New nav bar/@comment-28857013-20141205164250

There are more ways to do it, and mine was to use CSS.

.global-navigation { transform-origin: 0 50%; scaleY(0.5) }

This may squish your bar into the original size, but it looks rather odd.

.global-navigation-item { transform-origin: 0 50%; scaleX(0.5) }

may fix it, but it is again too small to play with.

It's all up to your customization. It's just the thing that we don't want that ugly space-eating monster above us.