diff --git a/src/client/theme-default/styles/base.css b/src/client/theme-default/styles/base.css
index 4472602f9..e8e4f9e48 100644
--- a/src/client/theme-default/styles/base.css
+++ b/src/client/theme-default/styles/base.css
@@ -40,7 +40,6 @@
     font-weight: 400;
     color: var(--vp-c-text-1);
     background-color: var(--vp-c-bg);
-    font-synthesis: style;
     text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;
     -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;
     -moz-osx-font-smoothing: grayscale;