Okay just solved this, with the fun new upshot that now text gets cut off by the extremities of overall navigation up there. I also now understand why the character count limit was in the template in the first place ??
For anyone interested <h1 class=”mantle”><?php echo sc_string_limit_chars( get_the_title(), 20 ); ?></h1> is the line you’re looking for it homepage.php
Now if I can just expand the text cut offs, if anyone has any ideas I’d love to hear them ??