To me, it seems that the font size of the status bar is smaller than the rest of the UI. Is it intentionally set to use smaller font size than the rest of the UI? If so, is there any way to increase the status bar text size, WITHOUT increasing the font size for the rest of the UI? I.e., I want the status bar to have the same text size as the rest of the UI.
It looks like your status bar is bold. I have no such effect with 7.4.5.1 under KDE Plasma and Fedora 37 (you didn’t mention LO version, your distro nor the desktop manager, Gnome, Mate, KDE, Lxde, LxQt, …). Could it be a consequence of the dark theme? Does it also happen under a light theme?
I am using Gnome Wayland 43.3 on a Arch-based distribution. In Tweaks, I have set Adw-gtk3-dark for the “Legacy Apps”, and changing it to Adw-gtk3 made no difference in its boldness.
But if I change it to “Adwaita (default)”, then it was no longer bold.
But the font size was still smaller than the rest of the UI. LO version is
Version: 7.5.0.3 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 50(Build:3)
CPU threads: 12; OS: Linux 6.2; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Locale: en-GB (en_GB.UTF-8); UI: en-US
7.5.0-1
Calc: threaded
Under KDE, the status bar has the same font size as the rest of the UI?
As measured with the KRuler utility, uppercase S in the top menu and status bar are both 5 pixels high.