diff --git a/data/theme/calendar-today.svg b/data/theme/calendar-today.svg
index 7ce27bdab..5e77084c7 100644
--- a/data/theme/calendar-today.svg
+++ b/data/theme/calendar-today.svg
@@ -10,11 +10,11 @@
    xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
    xmlns:sodipodi="http://sodipodi.sourceforge.net/DTD/sodipodi-0.dtd"
    xmlns:inkscape="http://www.inkscape.org/namespaces/inkscape"
-   width="29"
-   height="29"
+   width="24"
+   height="24"
    id="svg10621"
    version="1.1"
-   inkscape:version="0.48.2 r9819"
+   inkscape:version="0.91 r13725"
    sodipodi:docname="calendar-today.svg">
   <defs
      id="defs10623">
@@ -118,17 +118,6 @@
        fx="51"
        fy="30"
        r="42" />
-    <radialGradient
-       inkscape:collect="always"
-       xlink:href="#linearGradient34508-1-3"
-       id="radialGradient3113"
-       gradientUnits="userSpaceOnUse"
-       gradientTransform="matrix(0.72146227,0,0,0.27484277,14.205424,21.754717)"
-       cx="51"
-       cy="30"
-       fx="51"
-       fy="30"
-       r="42" />
   </defs>
   <sodipodi:namedview
      id="base"
@@ -137,22 +126,23 @@
      borderopacity="1.0"
      inkscape:pageopacity="0"
      inkscape:pageshadow="2"
-     inkscape:zoom="15.839192"
-     inkscape:cx="20.652108"
-     inkscape:cy="11.839084"
+     inkscape:zoom="8"
+     inkscape:cx="-23.537329"
+     inkscape:cy="-31.442864"
      inkscape:document-units="px"
      inkscape:current-layer="layer1"
-     showgrid="true"
+     showgrid="false"
      fit-margin-top="0"
      fit-margin-left="0"
      fit-margin-right="0"
      fit-margin-bottom="0"
-     inkscape:window-width="1280"
-     inkscape:window-height="741"
-     inkscape:window-x="0"
-     inkscape:window-y="27"
-     inkscape:window-maximized="1"
-     borderlayer="true">
+     inkscape:window-width="2133"
+     inkscape:window-height="1241"
+     inkscape:window-x="238"
+     inkscape:window-y="88"
+     inkscape:window-maximized="0"
+     borderlayer="true"
+     inkscape:showpageshadow="false">
     <inkscape:grid
        type="xygrid"
        id="grid3109"
@@ -169,7 +159,7 @@
         <dc:format>image/svg+xml</dc:format>
         <dc:type
            rdf:resource="http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/StillImage" />
-        <dc:title />
+        <dc:title></dc:title>
       </cc:Work>
     </rdf:RDF>
   </metadata>
@@ -177,28 +167,12 @@
      inkscape:label="Layer 1"
      inkscape:groupmode="layer"
      id="layer1"
-     transform="translate(-469.08263,-532.99307)">
-    <path
-       sodipodi:type="arc"
-       style="opacity:0.4625;color:#000000;fill:url(#radialGradient3113);fill-opacity:1;fill-rule:nonzero;stroke:none;stroke-width:3;marker:none;visibility:visible;display:inline;overflow:visible;enable-background:accumulate"
-       id="path34506-3"
-       sodipodi:cx="51"
-       sodipodi:cy="30"
-       sodipodi:rx="42"
-       sodipodi:ry="16"
-       d="M 9,29.999999 A 42,16 0 0 1 93,30 l -42,0 z"
-       sodipodi:start="3.1415927"
-       sodipodi:end="6.2831853"
-       transform="matrix(0.43692393,0,0,1.3783114,461.29951,517.6437)"
-       inkscape:export-filename="/home/jimmac/src/cvs/gnome/gnome-shell-design/mockups/motion/textures/panel.png"
-       inkscape:export-xdpi="90"
-       inkscape:export-ydpi="90" />
-    <rect
-       style="fill:#ffffff;fill-opacity:0.50196078;stroke-width:0.43599999;stroke-miterlimit:4;stroke-dasharray:none"
-       id="rect2996"
-       width="31"
-       height="3"
-       x="468.08264"
-       y="558.99304" />
+     transform="translate(-469.08263,-537.99307)">
+    <circle
+       style="color:#000000;clip-rule:nonzero;display:inline;overflow:visible;visibility:visible;opacity:1;isolation:auto;mix-blend-mode:normal;color-interpolation:sRGB;color-interpolation-filters:linearRGB;solid-color:#000000;solid-opacity:1;fill:#ffffff;fill-opacity:0.23756906;fill-rule:nonzero;stroke:none;stroke-width:1;stroke-linecap:butt;stroke-linejoin:miter;stroke-miterlimit:4;stroke-dasharray:none;stroke-dashoffset:0;stroke-opacity:1;marker:none;marker-start:none;marker-mid:none;marker-end:none;paint-order:normal;color-rendering:auto;image-rendering:auto;shape-rendering:auto;text-rendering:auto;enable-background:accumulate"
+       id="path7305"
+       cx="481.57138"
+       cy="559.4649"
+       r="1.5" />
   </g>
 </svg>
diff --git a/data/theme/gnome-shell-high-contrast.css b/data/theme/gnome-shell-high-contrast.css
index bb0f53592..3e0a54c04 100644
--- a/data/theme/gnome-shell-high-contrast.css
+++ b/data/theme/gnome-shell-high-contrast.css
@@ -710,8 +710,9 @@ StScrollBar {
   border: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5); }
 
 .calendar-day-with-events {
-  color: #f2f2f2;
-  font-weight: bold; }
+  color: white;
+  font-weight: bold;
+  background-image: url("resource:///org/gnome/shell/theme/calendar-today.svg"); }
 
 .calendar-other-month-day {
   color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.15);
diff --git a/data/theme/gnome-shell-sass b/data/theme/gnome-shell-sass
index b890a4003..2cc9e9e7f 160000
--- a/data/theme/gnome-shell-sass
+++ b/data/theme/gnome-shell-sass
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Subproject commit b890a4003e711a4094a84c3ef8367e3f6417bcd4
+Subproject commit 2cc9e9e7fc227eecdc1c0c0b088342e88c833a4f
diff --git a/data/theme/gnome-shell.css b/data/theme/gnome-shell.css
index b61909177..519ba7d90 100644
--- a/data/theme/gnome-shell.css
+++ b/data/theme/gnome-shell.css
@@ -710,8 +710,9 @@ StScrollBar {
   border: 1px solid rgba(28, 31, 31, 0.5); }
 
 .calendar-day-with-events {
-  color: #e2e2df;
-  font-weight: bold; }
+  color: white;
+  font-weight: bold;
+  background-image: url("resource:///org/gnome/shell/theme/calendar-today.svg"); }
 
 .calendar-other-month-day {
   color: rgba(238, 238, 236, 0.15);