Text in right-aligned table columns renders in serif font

[matt-dray]

Problem

For me, right-aligned columns appear as serif font, but table font should be sans-serif regardless of alignment. I noticed this when looking at the {govdown} guidance page.

Example

Screenshot from the {govdown} guidance page rendered in Chrome. The right-aligned column called 'Right' contains serif fonts. Remaining columns are sans-serif.

The screenshot below is from a locally-knitted govdown Rmd showing that it doesn't matter where the right-aligned column is.

Reproducibility

This occurs for me regardless of browser (Chrome, Safari and Firefox) on my work Mac. I've also reproduced it locally by knitting a govdown Rmd containing tables produced in
markdown format and when using knitr::kable().

Wasn't a problem in @nacnudus's setup, I believe.

Potential cause

Misbehaviour of govuk-table__cell--numeric? Inspection in browser implies sans-serif font though.

[nacnudus]

Confirmed. Thanks for the detailed the report.