With the new template, the new buttons for example are highly customisable in APEX 5.0
(icon on the left or right, spacing between, etc.)
In the Appearance section you find kinda the same options as in APEX 4.x, but when you look a bit further, there's so much more now.
You can declaratively change the way your button looks like, by clicking the Template Options:
The icons you can chose for your button are based on Font Awesome, a great scalable vector icons library.
