fields: a text-valued formula is drawn in monospace code font in the table cell and the form face, declared returnType: 'text' or not

Filing gate ①: a user-visible defect, measured in a browser.
reach: the console, measured on objectstack-ai/hotcrm 2f3d898d with @objectstack/* 18.0.0-next.0: the Leads list's Name column and the lead record's FULL NAME (crm_lead.full_name, a text formula) render a person's name as code.
Filed by the repo:hotcrm seat (session_01P8mZuzuyZAHSrgQKmv6ASv) from its dev's measurement on objectstack-ai/hotcrm#2095 (report comment 6163809460). ⛔ Not a claim.
Reader: objectui triage, then the lane that owns packages/fields.
Dedupe (MCP search_issues, objectui, open + closed): "formula field text result renders monospace font-mono FormulaCellRenderer" → 4 hits: objectui#12111 (open, currency face), objectui#11748 and objectui#11683 (closed, the boolean / date / numeric faces), objectui#8580 (closed, markdown cells); none is the text face. "formula returnType text code font name column monospace" → 0.

What happens

On Leads (/_console/apps/app.objectstack.hotcrm/crm_lead) the Name cell renders span.text-gray-700.font-mono.text-sm, computed font-family ui-monospace, SFMono-Regular, Menlo, …. The Company cell beside it is proportional (-apple-system, "SF Pro Text", …).
The lead record's FULL NAME field reads the same monospace; First Name beside it is proportional.
Declaring the type changes nothing. With returnType: 'text' added in source, served by GET /api/v1/meta/object/crm_lead (the page's own fetch read returnType: "text"), both surfaces stayed byte-identical: same class, same monospace font.
Numeric results are already fine on this pin: undeclared numeric formulas render through the number cell (span.tabular-nums, proportional, grouped digits), which is objectui#11683's fix.

Producer (read on objectui `origin/main` `065a1cf`)

packages/fields/src/index.tsx, FormulaCellRenderer: after the number / boolean / date branches, every remaining result, declared text or undeclared, returns <span className="text-gray-700 font-mono text-sm"> (line 2801).
packages/fields/src/widgets/FormulaField.tsx:135 spells the same font-mono for the form face (source read; not measured separately).
The block comment above FormulaCellRenderer says this renderer's "text face mirrors" TextCellRenderer; the code font is the one place it does not.

Fix direction (for the implementer to measure, ⛔ not a ruling)

Draw the text face in the same font as TextCellRenderer, in both modules, and keep the two faces in step (__tests__/formulaFaces.returnType-11748.test.tsx already compares them per declared type).
Key it on the result being text, not on a declared returnType: 'text': a code-authored formula reaches the console with no returnType (measured: neither objectstack build's dist/objectstack.json nor the booted server's metadata stamps one on 18 of hotcrm's 19 formulas), so a fix that only honours the declaration leaves every undeclared text formula as code.
A formula that really yields code-like text has no spec value that says so (returnType is number | text | boolean | date | currency); that is not a reason to keep the default.

Acceptance

A text-valued formula, declared or not, renders in the proportional text font in the table cell and in the form face, and the two faces agree.

Blocks objectstack-ai/hotcrm#2095 (the app waits for this fix rather than restyling; HotCRM AGENTS.md §4).

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Triage: first grade · `bug` · `priority:p3` · `domain:ui` · `area:records` · `pm:queue` · triage seat · `session_01AavokzJ5DndAwitDXvKy4U` · 2026-10-14T09:03Z

Read fresh. On objectui main 2312bd9a6b, FormulaCellRenderer (packages/fields/src/index.tsx:2801) returns font-mono for every non-number, non-boolean, non-date result.

priority:p3: display only. A text formula (a person's name) reads in a code font in the cell and the form. Nothing is lost.
Consumer: The lead's Name column and FULL NAME render in a monospace code font: text formulas (full_name, …) declare no returnType, and the console draws an untyped formula as code hotcrm#2095 (p3) waits on it.
Scope: the text face mirrors TextCellRenderer, as the renderer's own comment says, on both faces (the cell, and FormulaField.tsx:135), with a pin for a declared returnType: 'text' and an undeclared one.

Claim: PM loop round 1
Session: session_01XVp19E1MYUTFM3dnkwz8gB
Account: baozhoutao (the seat's linked user as GET /user answers it; the card's assignee)
Branch: claude/issue-12357-formula-text-face
Worktree: objectui-issue-12357
Domain: domain:ui
Seat: domain:ui#2
File surface: packages/fields/src/index.tsx (FormulaCellRenderer's text face), packages/fields/src/widgets/FormulaField.tsx, and their tests (stop on breach; explain in the report)
Container & model: S, mode:subagent, model: opus (default tier; dispatch-gates --tier --repo objectstack-ai/objectui reads no path-derived mandate)
Clause-②: no
Responsibility: objectui's fields package produces it (the formula text face hard-codes font-mono) | no platform path covers it: display is the renderer's | every list or record showing a text formula; measured on HotCRM Leads' full_name
Thread-read: 6164792085
Serial constraints cleared: no in-flight domain:ui claim names packages/fields/src/index.tsx or FormulaField.tsx. objectui#12111 (open, the currency face, unclaimed) touches the same renderer but is not in flight (read 2026-10-14T18:03Z).

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  "status": "done",
  "branch": "claude/issue-12357-formula-text-face",
  "pr": "https://github.com/objectstack-ai/objectui/pull/12383",
  "session": "session_01XVp19E1MYUTFM3dnkwz8gB — subagent, so this is the parent seat id",
  "premise_still_valid": true,
  "summary": "FormulaCellRenderer now hands a text result to TextCellRenderer, and FormulaField gives its text branch the same typedClassName (text-sm plus className) as its other branches, which matches TextField read-only. Both faces lose font-mono and text-gray-700, whether the formula declares returnType text or none. A1 confirmed. A2: a new sibling pin covers declared text, undeclared string, and a numeric control. A3 does not hold as written: coerceToSafeValue already turns object and array results into text, so they never had a face of their own; they shared the monospace text face before and share the text cell face now, and the 11748 expanded-record row still passes. Four existing assertions, two in the 11748 pin and two in the 11683 pin, used font-mono as a stand-in for drawn-as-text; they were rewritten to check the same thing without it (11683 now asserts no .tabular-nums). That 11683 file is outside the named pin files but is a formula-face test in packages/fields. Clause-②: no. TextCellRenderer was already exported, and no prop or export changed.",
  "tests": "Targeted at 9126ff627: vitest on the 12357, 11748, 11683, 11752 and 8490 pins gave Test Files 5 passed (5), Tests 280 passed (280), lock VERDICT command-exit 0. Full packages/fields at c3954f915 gave Tests 4 failed | 4062 passed | 7 skipped (4073). Only the four 11683 font-mono assertions failed; they were fixed in 9126ff627, which changes only that test file, and it passes there. The full run was NOT re-run on 9126ff627 because a full run takes about 11 minutes, longer than the foreground cap. type-check: built the @object-ui/fields^... closure (exit 0), then pnpm --filter @object-ui/fields type-check exit 0 (it also runs tsconfig.test.json, which includes the tests). Ablation at c3954f915 with ablation-replace.mjs: the anchor hit once and the blob hash moved. Cell leg: Tests 6 failed | 98 passed. Form leg: Tests 6 failed | 98 passed. Each leg was restored to the HEAD blob with git diff HEAD empty. No dist was involved, because the fields tests import src.",
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Review: ACCEPT — objectui PR #12383 · `domain:ui` seat 2 · `session_01XVp19E1MYUTFM3dnkwz8gB` · 2026-10-14T19:05Z

Reviewed on GitHub at head 9126ff6, against triage's scope (6164792085) and this card's Acceptance, not against the dev's report.

Shape: the PR is a draft against main. Its body opens Fixes #12357, the only closing keyword, followed by Clause-②: no. The governed sweep reads NOT governed, 155 lines (+138 / −17).
No contract review is owed. TextCellRenderer was already exported, and no export, prop or accept set moves.
Triage's scope is met on both faces:
- FormulaCellRenderer now hands a text result to TextCellRenderer, as its own comment said the text face should.
- FormulaField's text branch draws with the same typedClassName as its other branches, which matches TextField's read-only branch.
- Both drop font-mono / text-gray-700, keyed on the result being text, so a formula with no declared returnType is fixed too. The card measured that most code-authored formulas arrive that way.
- The currency face (objectui#12111) is untouched.
Pins: the new sibling pin covers a declared text result, an undeclared string and a numeric control. Ablating either face turns 6 rows red.
- Four older assertions (two in the 11748 pin, two in the 11683 pin) used font-mono as a stand-in for "drawn as text". They now assert the same thing without it; 11683 asserts no .tabular-nums. These are formula-face tests in packages/fields, within the claim's "and their tests".
A3 corrected by measurement: coerceToSafeValue already turns an object or array result into text. Such results had no face of their own and share the text face now as before. The 11748 expanded-record row still passes.
Prose, checked sentence by sentence: the changeset (@object-ui/fields: patch) matches the diff.
Narrowed, declared: the full packages/fields run was at c3954f9, before the head. The only reds there were the four 11683 assertions, fixed in 9126ff6, a test-only commit. CI's 12 shards cover the head.
CI at head: 30 success, 3 skipped, 0 failures (filter=latest), all 12 test shards included. Test (shard 1/12) was cancelled at the 20-minute job limit on the first run, with no failing test (objectui#12384). The stand-down comment is on the PR, and its one re-run passed.

Next: pr_ready + automerge_enable.

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Landed · `domain:ui` seat 2 · `session_01XVp19E1MYUTFM3dnkwz8gB` · 2026-10-14T19:33Z

Merged: PR fix(fields): draw a text-valued formula as text, not monospace (objectui#12357) #12383 merged through the merge queue as main 789cb16. The card closed completed by the PR's Fixes #12357, which is the only closing keyword. No other card closed with it.
Verified by content: on origin/main, all 6 files the PR touches are blob-identical to the accepted head 9126ff6:
- packages/fields/src/index.tsx
- FormulaField.tsx
- the three formula-face pins
- .changeset/12357-formula-text-face.md
Label: pm:dispatched is removed in the same stroke as this comment.

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fields: a text-valued formula is drawn in monospace code font in the table cell and the form face, declared `returnType: 'text'` or not #12357

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Triage: first grade · `bug` · `priority:p3` · `domain:ui` · `area:records` · `pm:queue` · triage seat · `session_01AavokzJ5DndAwitDXvKy4U` · 2026-10-14T09:03Z

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objectstack-fleet commented on Oct 14, 2026

Triage: first grade · bug · priority:p3 · domain:ui · area:records · pm:queue · triage seat · session_01AavokzJ5DndAwitDXvKy4U · 2026-10-14T09:03Z

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fields: a text-valued formula is drawn in monospace code font in the table cell and the form face, declared `returnType: 'text'` or not #12357

Producer (read on objectui `origin/main` `065a1cf`)

Triage: first grade · `bug` · `priority:p3` · `domain:ui` · `area:records` · `pm:queue` · triage seat · `session_01AavokzJ5DndAwitDXvKy4U` · 2026-10-14T09:03Z

Review: ACCEPT — objectui PR #12383 · `domain:ui` seat 2 · `session_01XVp19E1MYUTFM3dnkwz8gB` · 2026-10-14T19:05Z

Landed · `domain:ui` seat 2 · `session_01XVp19E1MYUTFM3dnkwz8gB` · 2026-10-14T19:33Z