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darkomesaros

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Registered: 2025-05-26

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[SOLVED] Brave browser tab font is weird

Since a few days ago, the font in my brave browser has started showing up ... odd. It seem that it is using a different font from the rest of the browser. Every other font used by the browser looks okay, except for the tabs.
I've installed all the fonts I think should exist (Noto fonts and even the Microsoft fonts). I did a `fc-cache --realy-force` as well. To no avail.

One more spot where it shows up is in the file selector dialog. Any suggestion where I could configure this?

I run, LeftWM, so no DE.

Here is how it looks like:

Last edited by darkomesaros (2025-05-28 22:06:38)

lmn

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Registered: 2021-05-09

Posts: 79

Re: [SOLVED] Brave browser tab font is weird

There seems to be a recent change in gtk3 where they changed the default font from Cantarell to Adwaita Sans. This affects all gtk applications.
You can set the default font as described in the Arch Wiki. The relevant part is:

[Settings]
gtk-font-name = Cantarell 11

NB: This also effects some font rendering e.g. system-ui (you can check this by using the developer tools in your browser).
If you are not sure which font was used as the default, you can try installing the old version of gtk3 and check the relevant changes there.

darkomesaros

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Registered: 2025-05-26

Posts: 2

Re: [SOLVED] Brave browser tab font is weird

THANK YOU! This fixed it! Added the following to my settings.ini for GTK3

[Settings]
gtk-font-name = Noto Sans 11

Much appreciated!

lmn

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Registered: 2021-05-09

Posts: 79

Re: [SOLVED] Brave browser tab font is weird

Don't forget to mark your thread as [SOLVED].

WorMzy

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Re: [SOLVED] Brave browser tab font is weird

Mod note: moving to AUR Issues.

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