diff --git a/frontend/src/app/render_wasm/api/texts.cljs b/frontend/src/app/render_wasm/api/texts.cljs
index 3ded360e2c..bbc41bf1e4 100644
--- a/frontend/src/app/render_wasm/api/texts.cljs
+++ b/frontend/src/app/render_wasm/api/texts.cljs
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@
                     font-size   (f/serialize-font-size font-size)
 
                     line-height     (f/serialize-line-height (get span :line-height) paragraph-line-height)
-                    letter-spacing  (f/serialize-letter-spacing (get paragraph :letter-spacing))
+                    letter-spacing  (f/serialize-letter-spacing (get span :letter-spacing))
 
                     font-weight (get span :font-weight paragraph-font-weight)
                     font-weight (f/serialize-font-weight font-weight)
diff --git a/frontend/text-editor/src/editor/controllers/SelectionController.js b/frontend/text-editor/src/editor/controllers/SelectionController.js
index 869c4b620e..9a452e4795 100644
--- a/frontend/text-editor/src/editor/controllers/SelectionController.js
+++ b/frontend/text-editor/src/editor/controllers/SelectionController.js
@@ -1967,9 +1967,14 @@ export class SelectionController extends EventTarget {
         this.setSelection(newTextSpan.firstChild, 0, newTextSpan.firstChild, 0);
       }
       // The styles are applied to the paragraph
-      else {
+      else
+      {
         const paragraph = this.startParagraph;
         setParagraphStyles(paragraph, newStyles);
+        // Apply styles to child text spans.
+        for (const textSpan of paragraph.children) {
+          setTextSpanStyles(textSpan, newStyles);
+        }
       }
       return this.#notifyStyleChange();