Inconsistent Label and Text Fonts

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Hi all,

I’m likely missing something obvious, but these font inconsistencies are making me rather curious.

I had a look at GNOME Tweaks and Refine, and they seem to be handling font sizes rather differently.

In both instances the Labels appear to be the same size, but the descriptions for the labels differ quite dramatically; so much so that the description text is the same size as the label in Refine; in Tweaks they differ enough to make the UI usable:

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Could anyone tell me a. why this is happening, and b. how I’d go about, if not fixing it, at least make it “better”.

Here is another example from Extension Manager, also displaying the issue quite clearly:

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Anyone have any ideas?

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Remove the GTK_THEME variable you have set. Once it’s set, the libadwaita css does not load.

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I didn’t think I had it set, so I did a find from my Home directory.

I eventually (I have a rather large Home directory) found it in ~/.local/share/flatpak/overrides/global, and, once I removed the entry in there, it all looked correct again.

Amusingly, it never appeared under the “Environment” section in Flatseal, which is why I had missed it initially.

Thanks for the hint, this would have bugged me endlessly.

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For additional reference and solutions to anyone coming across this:

PSA/SOLVED: Flatpak GTK/libadwaita apps looked broken/unstyled because GTK_THEME was set to an empty value