diff --git a/public/fonts/aldrich-regular.woff2 b/public/fonts/aldrich-regular.woff2
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..c92a531b
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diff --git a/public/style.css b/public/style.css
index 58c885cf..5af7f8fa 100644
--- a/public/style.css
+++ b/public/style.css
@@ -1,5 +1,16 @@
 /* === CoreScope — style.css === */
 
+/* Aldrich webfont — used by the navbar logo SVG (issue #1137 follow-up).
+ * Self-hosted woff2 (latin subset from Google Fonts, ~16KB). Only weight
+ * available is 400; the SVG's font-weight="700" synthesizes bold. */
+@font-face {
+  font-family: 'Aldrich';
+  src: url('/fonts/aldrich-regular.woff2') format('woff2');
+  font-weight: 400;
+  font-style: normal;
+  font-display: swap;
+}
+
 /* ============================================================
  * Z-INDEX SCALE (single source of truth — issues #1128, #1131, #1128 followup)
  * ------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/scripts/instrument-frontend.sh b/scripts/instrument-frontend.sh
index 615416ed..51562f8c 100644
--- a/scripts/instrument-frontend.sh
+++ b/scripts/instrument-frontend.sh
@@ -16,6 +16,15 @@ if [ -d public/img ]; then
   mkdir -p public-instrumented/img
   cp -r public/img/. public-instrumented/img/
 fi
+# Copy webfonts (e.g. public/fonts/aldrich-regular.woff2 used by the
+# navbar logo SVG @font-face, #1137 follow-up). Same SPA-fallback gotcha
+# as /img — without this, GET /fonts/aldrich-regular.woff2 returns
+# index.html and the @font-face download fails silently, so the logo
+# falls back to monospace and the Aldrich E2E assertion fails.
+if [ -d public/fonts ]; then
+  mkdir -p public-instrumented/fonts
+  cp -r public/fonts/. public-instrumented/fonts/
+fi
 # Copy vendored libraries unmodified — `nyc instrument` skips subdirectories
 # without a package.json, so vendor/qrcode.js, vendor/jsqr.min.js, etc. are
 # never emitted into public-instrumented/. Without them the SPA fallback
diff --git a/test-e2e-playwright.js b/test-e2e-playwright.js
index 1783af27..8e695375 100644
--- a/test-e2e-playwright.js
+++ b/test-e2e-playwright.js
@@ -56,6 +56,28 @@ async function run() {
     assert(nav, 'Nav bar not found');
   });
 
+  // #1137 follow-up: Aldrich webfont must actually load so the navbar logo SVG
+  // renders in the intended typeface (not the silent monospace fallback).
+  await test('#1137 Aldrich webfont is loaded for navbar logo SVG', async () => {
+    await page.goto(BASE, { waitUntil: 'domcontentloaded' });
+    // Explicitly request the font (waits for download). On the broken state
+    // there is no @font-face for Aldrich, so no FontFace matches and check()
+    // stays false — the assertion below fails on behavior, not infra.
+    const aldrichLoaded = await page.evaluate(async () => {
+      try { await document.fonts.load('1em Aldrich'); } catch (_) {}
+      await document.fonts.ready;
+      return document.fonts.check('1em Aldrich');
+    });
+    assert(aldrichLoaded, 'document.fonts.check("1em Aldrich") returned false — Aldrich is not loaded');
+    // Sanity: the inline SVG <text> still declares Aldrich in its font-family.
+    const fontFamily = await page.evaluate(() => {
+      const t = document.querySelector('nav svg text, .navbar svg text, header svg text');
+      return t ? (t.getAttribute('font-family') || getComputedStyle(t).fontFamily) : null;
+    });
+    assert(fontFamily && /aldrich/i.test(fontFamily),
+      `Navbar SVG <text> font-family should include Aldrich, got: ${fontFamily}`);
+  });
+
   // Test 6: Theme customizer opens (reuses home page from test 1)
   await test('Theme customizer opens', async () => {
     // Look for palette/customize button