diff --git a/studio/frontend/src/components/assistant-ui/markdown-text.tsx b/studio/frontend/src/components/assistant-ui/markdown-text.tsx
index 5e84b9175e..17a6f8f054 100644
--- a/studio/frontend/src/components/assistant-ui/markdown-text.tsx
+++ b/studio/frontend/src/components/assistant-ui/markdown-text.tsx
@@ -403,7 +403,7 @@ const MarkdownTextImpl = () => {
   }
 
   return (
-    <div data-status={status.type}>
+    <div data-status={status.type} className="min-w-0 max-w-full">
       <Streamdown
         mode="streaming"
         isAnimating={status.type === "running"}
diff --git a/studio/frontend/src/components/assistant-ui/thread.tsx b/studio/frontend/src/components/assistant-ui/thread.tsx
index aae027c74b..5170f6ff69 100644
--- a/studio/frontend/src/components/assistant-ui/thread.tsx
+++ b/studio/frontend/src/components/assistant-ui/thread.tsx
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ export const Thread: FC<{ hideComposer?: boolean; hideWelcome?: boolean }> = ({
       }}
     >
       <ThreadPrimitive.Viewport
-        className="aui-thread-viewport relative flex flex-1 flex-col overflow-x-auto overflow-y-scroll scroll-smooth px-4 pt-4"
+        className="aui-thread-viewport relative flex min-w-0 flex-1 flex-col overflow-x-auto overflow-y-scroll scroll-smooth px-4 pt-4"
       >
         {!hideWelcome && (
           <AuiIf condition={({ thread }) => thread.isEmpty}>
@@ -89,7 +89,13 @@ export const Thread: FC<{ hideComposer?: boolean; hideWelcome?: boolean }> = ({
           }}
         />
 
-        <ThreadPrimitive.ViewportFooter className="aui-thread-viewport-footer sticky bottom-0 z-20 mt-auto flex w-full flex-col gap-4 overflow-visible bg-background pb-4 md:pb-4">
+        <ThreadPrimitive.ViewportFooter className={cn(
+          "aui-thread-viewport-footer sticky bottom-0 z-20 mt-auto flex w-full flex-col gap-4 overflow-visible pb-4 md:pb-4",
+          hideComposer ? "bg-background" : "relative bg-transparent",
+        )}>
+          {!hideComposer && (
+            <div className="pointer-events-none absolute inset-x-0 bottom-0 h-4 bg-background" aria-hidden />
+          )}
           <ThreadScrollToBottom />
           <AuiIf condition={({ thread }) => !thread.isEmpty}>
             {!hideComposer && <ComposerAnimated />}
@@ -220,14 +226,20 @@ const GeneratingSpinner: FC = () => {
 
 const ComposerAnimated: FC = () => {
   return (
-    <motion.div
-      layout={true}
-      layoutId="composer"
-      transition={{ type: "spring", bounce: 0.15, duration: 0.5 }}
-      className="mx-auto w-full max-w-(--thread-max-width)"
-    >
-      <Composer />
-    </motion.div>
+    <div className="relative mx-auto min-w-0 w-full max-w-(--thread-max-width)">
+      <div
+        className="pointer-events-none absolute inset-x-0 top-1/2 bottom-0 z-0 bg-background"
+        aria-hidden
+      />
+      <motion.div
+        layout={true}
+        layoutId="composer"
+        transition={{ type: "spring", bounce: 0.15, duration: 0.5 }}
+        className="relative z-10 w-full"
+      >
+        <Composer />
+      </motion.div>
+    </div>
   );
 };
 
@@ -262,7 +274,7 @@ const Composer: FC = () => {
         <ToolStatusDisplay />
         <ComposerPrimitive.Input
           placeholder="Send a message..."
-          className="aui-composer-input mb-1 max-h-32 min-h-12 w-full resize-none bg-transparent px-4 pt-2 pb-3 text-sm outline-none placeholder:text-muted-foreground focus-visible:ring-0"
+          className="aui-composer-input mb-1 max-h-32 min-h-12 w-full resize-none bg-transparent pl-5 pr-4 pt-2 pb-3 text-sm outline-none placeholder:text-muted-foreground focus-visible:ring-0"
           rows={1}
           autoFocus={true}
           aria-label="Message input"
@@ -574,10 +586,10 @@ const GeneratingIndicator: FC = () => {
 const AssistantMessage: FC = () => {
   return (
     <MessagePrimitive.Root
-      className="aui-assistant-message-root fade-in slide-in-from-bottom-1 relative mx-auto w-full max-w-(--thread-max-width) animate-in py-3 duration-150"
+      className="aui-assistant-message-root fade-in slide-in-from-bottom-1 relative mx-auto min-w-0 w-full max-w-(--thread-max-width) animate-in py-3 duration-150"
       data-role="assistant"
     >
-      <div className="aui-assistant-message-content wrap-break-word px-2 text-foreground leading-relaxed">
+      <div className="aui-assistant-message-content wrap-break-word min-w-0 text-foreground leading-relaxed">
         <GeneratingIndicator />
         <MessagePrimitive.Parts
           components={{
@@ -600,7 +612,7 @@ const AssistantMessage: FC = () => {
         <MessageError />
       </div>
 
-      <div className="aui-assistant-message-footer mt-1 ml-2 flex">
+      <div className="aui-assistant-message-footer mt-1 flex">
         <BranchPicker />
         <AssistantActionBar />
       </div>
diff --git a/studio/frontend/src/components/assistant-ui/tool-fallback.tsx b/studio/frontend/src/components/assistant-ui/tool-fallback.tsx
index c965749f74..82a5b17e04 100644
--- a/studio/frontend/src/components/assistant-ui/tool-fallback.tsx
+++ b/studio/frontend/src/components/assistant-ui/tool-fallback.tsx
@@ -156,12 +156,12 @@ function ToolFallbackTrigger({
       <span
         data-slot="tool-fallback-trigger-label"
         className={cn(
-          "aui-tool-fallback-trigger-label-wrapper relative inline-block grow text-left leading-none",
+          "aui-tool-fallback-trigger-label-wrapper relative inline-block grow text-left leading-none text-muted-foreground",
           isCancelled && "text-muted-foreground line-through",
         )}
       >
         <span>
-          {label}: <b>{toolName}</b>
+          {label}: <span className="font-medium text-foreground/85">{toolName}</span>
         </span>
         {isRunning && (
           <span
@@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ function ToolFallbackTrigger({
             data-slot="tool-fallback-trigger-shimmer"
             className="aui-tool-fallback-trigger-shimmer shimmer pointer-events-none absolute inset-0 motion-reduce:animate-none"
           >
-            {label}: <b>{toolName}</b>
+            {label}: <span className="font-medium text-foreground/85">{toolName}</span>
           </span>
         )}
       </span>
diff --git a/studio/frontend/src/components/navbar.tsx b/studio/frontend/src/components/navbar.tsx
index 63189a0d5d..121c559db8 100644
--- a/studio/frontend/src/components/navbar.tsx
+++ b/studio/frontend/src/components/navbar.tsx
@@ -372,90 +372,94 @@ export function Navbar() {
           })}
         </nav>
 
-        {/* Right: docs/tour desktop */}
-        <div className="hidden items-center justify-self-end gap-2 md:flex">
-          <AnimatedThemeToggler
-            className="flex h-9 w-9 items-center justify-center rounded-md text-muted-foreground transition-colors hover:bg-accent hover:text-foreground [&_svg]:size-4"
-            title="Toggle theme"
-            aria-label="Toggle theme"
-          />
-          <HoverCard openDelay={200} closeDelay={100}>
-            <HoverCardTrigger asChild={true}>
-              <a
-                href="https://unsloth.ai/docs"
-                target="_blank"
-                rel="noopener noreferrer"
-                className="flex items-center gap-1.5 text-sm font-medium text-emerald-600 hover:text-emerald-700 transition-colors"
-              >
-                <HugeiconsIcon icon={Book03Icon} className="size-4" />
-                Learn more
-              </a>
-            </HoverCardTrigger>
-            <HoverCardContent align="end" className="w-80 p-0">
-              <a
-                href="https://unsloth.ai/docs"
-                target="_blank"
-                rel="noopener noreferrer"
-                className="group/card flex flex-col gap-1 p-4 no-underline"
-              >
-                <p className="text-sm font-semibold font-heading">
-                  Unsloth Documentation
-                </p>
-                <p className="text-xs text-muted-foreground leading-relaxed">
-                  Guides on fine-tuning LLMs 2x faster with 70% less memory.
-                  Covers LoRA, QLoRA, data formatting, and deployment.
-                </p>
-                <span className="mt-1 flex items-center gap-1 text-xs font-medium text-emerald-600 group-hover/card:underline">
-                  Visit docs
-                  <HugeiconsIcon icon={ArrowRight01Icon} className="size-3" />
-                </span>
-              </a>
-            </HoverCardContent>
-          </HoverCard>
-
-          <button
-            type="button"
-            onClick={tourId ? openTour : undefined}
-            className={cn(
-              "flex h-9 items-center gap-1.5 rounded-md px-3 text-muted-foreground transition-colors hover:bg-accent hover:text-foreground",
-              !tourId && "invisible pointer-events-none",
-            )}
-            title="Tour"
-            aria-hidden={!tourId}
-            tabIndex={tourId ? 0 : -1}
-          >
-            <HugeiconsIcon icon={CursorInfo02Icon} className="size-4" />
-            <span className="text-sm font-medium">Tour</span>
-          </button>
-
-          <HoverCard openDelay={200} closeDelay={100}>
-            <HoverCardTrigger asChild={true}>
+        {/* Right: docs/tour desktop — one wrapper per control so flex gap is even (HoverCard roots can confuse flex spacing). */}
+        <div className="hidden items-center justify-self-end gap-0 md:flex">
+          <div className="flex shrink-0 items-center">
+            <AnimatedThemeToggler
+              className="flex h-9 w-9 items-center justify-center rounded-md text-muted-foreground transition-colors hover:bg-accent hover:text-foreground [&_svg]:size-4"
+              title="Toggle theme"
+              aria-label="Toggle theme"
+            />
+          </div>
+          <div className="flex shrink-0 items-center">
+            <HoverCard openDelay={200} closeDelay={100}>
+              <HoverCardTrigger asChild={true}>
+                <a
+                  href="https://unsloth.ai/docs"
+                  target="_blank"
+                  rel="noopener noreferrer"
+                  className="inline-flex h-9 items-center gap-1.5 rounded-md px-3 text-sm font-medium text-emerald-600 transition-colors hover:bg-accent hover:text-emerald-700 dark:hover:text-emerald-400"
+                >
+                  <HugeiconsIcon icon={Book03Icon} className="size-4" />
+                  Learn more
+                </a>
+              </HoverCardTrigger>
+              <HoverCardContent align="end" className="w-80 p-0">
+                <a
+                  href="https://unsloth.ai/docs"
+                  target="_blank"
+                  rel="noopener noreferrer"
+                  className="group/card flex flex-col gap-1 p-4 no-underline"
+                >
+                  <p className="text-sm font-semibold font-heading">
+                    Unsloth Documentation
+                  </p>
+                  <p className="text-xs text-muted-foreground leading-relaxed">
+                    Guides on fine-tuning LLMs 2x faster with 70% less memory.
+                    Covers LoRA, QLoRA, data formatting, and deployment.
+                  </p>
+                  <span className="mt-1 flex items-center gap-1 text-xs font-medium text-emerald-600 group-hover/card:underline">
+                    Visit docs
+                    <HugeiconsIcon icon={ArrowRight01Icon} className="size-3" />
+                  </span>
+                </a>
+              </HoverCardContent>
+            </HoverCard>
+          </div>
+          {tourId ? (
+            <div className="flex shrink-0 items-center">
               <button
                 type="button"
-                className="flex h-9 items-center gap-1.5 rounded-md px-3 text-sm font-medium text-muted-foreground transition-colors hover:bg-accent hover:text-foreground"
-                aria-label="How to update Unsloth Studio"
+                onClick={openTour}
+                className="flex h-9 items-center gap-1.5 rounded-md px-3 text-muted-foreground transition-colors hover:bg-accent hover:text-foreground"
+                title="Tour"
               >
-                <HugeiconsIcon icon={ArrowReloadHorizontalIcon} className="size-4" />
-                Update
+                <HugeiconsIcon icon={CursorInfo02Icon} className="size-4" />
+                <span className="text-sm font-medium">Tour</span>
               </button>
-            </HoverCardTrigger>
-            <HoverCardContent align="end" className="w-[22.5rem] p-0">
-              <UpdateStudioInstructions
-                className="p-4"
-                defaultShell={defaultUpdateShell}
-              />
-            </HoverCardContent>
-          </HoverCard>
-
-          <button
-            type="button"
-            onClick={() => setShutdownOpen(true)}
-            className="-mr-1.5 flex h-9 w-9 items-center justify-center rounded-md text-muted-foreground transition-colors hover:bg-accent hover:text-foreground"
-            title="Shut down Unsloth Studio server"
-            aria-label="Shut down Unsloth Studio server"
-          >
-            <HugeiconsIcon icon={Cancel01Icon} className="size-5" />
-          </button>
+            </div>
+          ) : null}
+          <div className="flex shrink-0 items-center">
+            <HoverCard openDelay={200} closeDelay={100}>
+              <HoverCardTrigger asChild={true}>
+                <button
+                  type="button"
+                  className="flex h-9 items-center gap-1.5 rounded-md px-3 text-sm font-medium text-muted-foreground transition-colors hover:bg-accent hover:text-foreground"
+                  aria-label="How to update Unsloth Studio"
+                >
+                  <HugeiconsIcon icon={ArrowReloadHorizontalIcon} className="size-4" />
+                  Update
+                </button>
+              </HoverCardTrigger>
+              <HoverCardContent align="end" className="w-[22.5rem] p-0">
+                <UpdateStudioInstructions
+                  className="p-4"
+                  defaultShell={defaultUpdateShell}
+                />
+              </HoverCardContent>
+            </HoverCard>
+          </div>
+          <div className="flex shrink-0 items-center">
+            <button
+              type="button"
+              onClick={() => setShutdownOpen(true)}
+              className="flex h-9 w-9 items-center justify-center rounded-md text-muted-foreground transition-colors hover:bg-accent hover:text-foreground"
+              title="Shut down Unsloth Studio server"
+              aria-label="Shut down Unsloth Studio server"
+            >
+              <HugeiconsIcon icon={Cancel01Icon} className="size-5" />
+            </button>
+          </div>
         </div>
 
         {/* Right: mobile */}
diff --git a/studio/frontend/src/features/chat/shared-composer.tsx b/studio/frontend/src/features/chat/shared-composer.tsx
index 59b0880add..ac01f77381 100644
--- a/studio/frontend/src/features/chat/shared-composer.tsx
+++ b/studio/frontend/src/features/chat/shared-composer.tsx
@@ -473,7 +473,7 @@ export function SharedComposer({
         onChange={(e) => setText(e.target.value)}
         onKeyDown={onKeyDown}
         placeholder="Send to both models..."
-        className="mb-1 max-h-32 min-h-14 w-full resize-none bg-transparent px-4 pt-2 pb-3 text-sm outline-none placeholder:text-muted-foreground"
+        className="mb-1 max-h-32 min-h-14 w-full resize-none bg-transparent pl-5 pr-4 pt-2 pb-3 text-sm outline-none placeholder:text-muted-foreground"
         rows={1}
       />
       <div className="relative mx-2 mb-2 flex items-center justify-between">
diff --git a/studio/frontend/src/index.css b/studio/frontend/src/index.css
index 8dc159a002..45696b2274 100644
--- a/studio/frontend/src/index.css
+++ b/studio/frontend/src/index.css
@@ -6,21 +6,11 @@
 @import "shadcn/tailwind.css";
 @import "streamdown/styles.css";
 @import "@fontsource-variable/figtree";
-@import "@fontsource-variable/space-grotesk";
 @import "@fontsource-variable/inter";
 @import "tw-shimmer";
 @plugin "@toolwind/corner-shape";
 @source "../node_modules/streamdown/dist/*.js";
 
-@font-face {
-  font-family: "Hellix";
-  src: url("/fonts/Hellix-SemiBold.woff2") format("woff2"),
-    url("/fonts/Hellix-SemiBold.woff") format("woff");
-  font-weight: 600;
-  font-style: normal;
-  font-display: swap;
-}
-
 @custom-variant dark (&:is(.dark *));
 
 :root {
@@ -67,7 +57,7 @@
   --sidebar-ring: oklch(0.6929 0.1396 166.5513);
   --destructive-foreground: oklch(1 0 0);
   --font-sans: "Inter Variable", ui-sans-serif, sans-serif, system-ui;
-  --font-heading: "Hellix", "Space Grotesk Variable", ui-sans-serif, sans-serif;
+  --font-heading: var(--font-sans);
   --font-serif: Source Serif 4, serif;
   --font-mono: JetBrains Mono, monospace;
   --shadow-color: hsl(0 0% 0%);
@@ -159,7 +149,7 @@
 
 @theme inline {
   --font-sans: "Inter Variable", ui-sans-serif, sans-serif, system-ui;
-  --font-heading: "Hellix", "Space Grotesk Variable", ui-sans-serif, sans-serif;
+  --font-heading: var(--font-sans);
   --color-sidebar-ring: var(--sidebar-ring);
   --color-sidebar-border: var(--sidebar-border);
   --color-sidebar-accent-foreground: var(--sidebar-accent-foreground);
@@ -343,10 +333,68 @@
   [data-streamdown="code-block"] {
     gap: 0;
     padding: 0.5rem;
+    /* Wide lines must scroll inside the thread column, not widen past the composer (flex min-width:auto). */
+    max-width: 100%;
+    min-width: 0;
+    overflow-x: auto;
   }
   [data-streamdown="code-block-header"] {
     padding-left: 0.75rem;
   }
+
+  /* Chat thread: code slightly smaller by default; step up when the thread column is wide. */
+  .aui-thread-root [data-streamdown="code-block"] {
+    font-size: 0.8125rem;
+    line-height: 1.55;
+  }
+
+  .aui-thread-root [data-streamdown="code-block-header"] {
+    font-size: 0.6875rem;
+  }
+
+  @container (min-width: 36rem) {
+    .aui-thread-root [data-streamdown="code-block"] {
+      font-size: 0.875rem;
+    }
+
+    .aui-thread-root [data-streamdown="code-block-header"] {
+      font-size: 0.75rem;
+    }
+  }
+
+  /* Chat: use the app sans stack for UI + prose. */
+  .aui-thread-root {
+    font-family: var(--font-sans);
+  }
+
+  .aui-thread-root .font-medium,
+  .aui-thread-root .font-semibold,
+  .aui-thread-root .font-bold,
+  .aui-thread-root .font-heading {
+    font-family: var(--font-sans);
+  }
+
+  .aui-thread-root :where(h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6) {
+    font-family: var(--font-sans);
+  }
+
+  /* Keep monospace for code fences and inline code (not KaTeX). */
+  .aui-thread-root [data-streamdown="code-block"] pre,
+  .aui-thread-root [data-streamdown="code-block"] code {
+    font-family: var(--font-mono), ui-monospace, monospace;
+  }
+
+  .aui-thread-root :where(p, li, td, th, blockquote, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6) code {
+    font-family: var(--font-mono), ui-monospace, monospace;
+  }
+
+  /* Align fenced code blocks with the main chat column even when nested in lists. */
+  .aui-thread-root [data-streamdown="list-item"] > [data-streamdown="code-block"],
+  .aui-thread-root [data-streamdown="list-item"] [data-streamdown="code-block"] {
+    margin-left: -1.25rem;
+    width: calc(100% + 1.25rem);
+    max-width: calc(100% + 1.25rem);
+  }
 }
 
 /* Minimal scrollbar — thumb only, no track */