diff --git a/apps/desktop/src/renderer/components/terminals/SessionCard.tsx b/apps/desktop/src/renderer/components/terminals/SessionCard.tsx
index a82aeb38f..ef6b31119 100644
--- a/apps/desktop/src/renderer/components/terminals/SessionCard.tsx
+++ b/apps/desktop/src/renderer/components/terminals/SessionCard.tsx
@@ -557,7 +557,7 @@ export const SessionCard = React.memo(function SessionCard({
       <span
         key="lane"
         data-session-lane-identity={lane.name}
-        className="inline-flex min-w-0 shrink items-center gap-1.5 text-[12px] font-medium"
+        className="inline-flex min-w-0 shrink items-center gap-1.5 text-[12px] font-semibold"
         // Inline style, not a class: the accent is per-lane user data.
         style={{ color: laneAccent ?? undefined }}
       >
@@ -567,7 +567,7 @@ export const SessionCard = React.memo(function SessionCard({
         >
           <LaneIcon size={12} weight="regular" />
         </span>
-        <span className={cn("min-w-0 truncate", laneAccent ? "" : "text-fg/80")}>
+        <span className={cn("min-w-0 truncate", laneAccent ? "" : "text-fg/85")}>
           <LaneNamingLabel laneName={lane.name} naming={isAutoNaming} />
         </span>
       </span>,
diff --git a/apps/desktop/src/renderer/components/terminals/SessionListPane.tsx b/apps/desktop/src/renderer/components/terminals/SessionListPane.tsx
index f1312131b..e36e44263 100644
--- a/apps/desktop/src/renderer/components/terminals/SessionListPane.tsx
+++ b/apps/desktop/src/renderer/components/terminals/SessionListPane.tsx
@@ -650,7 +650,7 @@ function StickyGroupHeader({
                 className={cn(
                   "min-w-0 shrink truncate leading-tight",
                   isLane
-                    ? "ade-lane-group-header-lane ade-lane-branch-inline-lane text-[12px] font-medium text-fg/85"
+                    ? "ade-lane-group-header-lane ade-lane-branch-inline-lane text-[12px] font-semibold text-fg/85"
                     // A quiet shelf ignores the shelf tone on purpose: colour is
                     // the lane divider's channel, and the whole reason Snoozed
                     // stopped being blue is that a coloured folding label with a