The screen titles were still system bold sans — `navigationTitle` renders through UIKit, which no SwiftUI font modifier reaches, so paperSurface() could tint the bar but never restyle its text. PaperAppearance configures UINavigationBarAppearance once at launch: serif large and inline titles in ink, and monospaced tab bar labels. One trap worth recording: configuring that appearance with configureWithOpaqueBackground() makes iOS 26 stop laying out the large title entirely — it vanishes rather than restyling, and it does so even with the font attributes removed, so it reads like a font problem when it isn't. Transparent works, and is right here anyway: every screen already paints the paper ground itself. Verified in both schemes. Suite passes. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JgLHztZGaEHvS3KNeGQmRM