diff --git a/src/blenderbim/blenderbim/bim/data/styles/default.css b/src/blenderbim/blenderbim/bim/data/styles/default.css
index 78c9ac41b1..75e5877d5b 100644
--- a/src/blenderbim/blenderbim/bim/data/styles/default.css
+++ b/src/blenderbim/blenderbim/bim/data/styles/default.css
@@ -48,12 +48,12 @@ text { /* 2.5mm */ fill: black; stroke: none; font-family: 'OpenGost Type B TT',
 .PredefinedType-TEXT { fill: black; stroke: none; }
 path.PredefinedType-TEXTLEADER { marker-end: url(#leader-marker); }
 text.PredefinedType-TEXTLEADER { fill: black; stroke: none; }
-text.title { /* 7mm */ font-size: 11.55px; }
-text.header { /* 5mm */ font-size: 8.25px; }
-text.large { /* 3.5mm */ font-size: 5.78px; }
-text.regular { /* 2.5mm */ font-size: 4.13px; }
-text.small { /* 1.8mm */ font-size: 2.97px; }
-text.GRID { /* 5mm */ font-size: 8.25px; }
+text.title, tspan.title { /* 7mm */ font-size: 11.55px; }
+text.header, tspan.header { /* 5mm */ font-size: 8.25px; }
+text.large, tspan.large { /* 3.5mm */ font-size: 5.78px; }
+text.regular, tspan.regular { /* 2.5mm */ font-size: 4.13px; }
+text.small, tspan.small { /* 1.8mm */ font-size: 2.97px; }
+text.GRID, tspan.GRID { /* 5mm */ font-size: 8.25px; }
 .material-blank { fill: white; }
 .material-diagonal1 { fill: url(#diagonal1); }
 .material-diagonal2 { fill: url(#diagonal2); }
diff --git a/src/blenderbim/blenderbim/bim/module/drawing/svgwriter.py b/src/blenderbim/blenderbim/bim/module/drawing/svgwriter.py
index 8caff39558..e97b1d48ca 100644
--- a/src/blenderbim/blenderbim/bim/module/drawing/svgwriter.py
+++ b/src/blenderbim/blenderbim/bim/module/drawing/svgwriter.py
@@ -660,22 +660,28 @@ class SvgWriter:
         }
         text_anchor = horizontal_alignment[ next(align for align in horizontal_alignment if align in box_alignment) ]
 
+
+        # after pretty indentation some redundant spaces can occur in svg tags
+        # this is why we apply "font-size: 0;" to the text tag to remove those spaces
+        # and add clases to the tspan tags
+        # ref: https://github.com/IfcOpenShell/IfcOpenShell/issues/2833#issuecomment-1471584960
         text = text_obj.BIMTextProperties.value
         text_tag = self.svg.text(
             "",
-            class_=" ".join(self.get_attribute_classes(text_obj)),
             **{
                 "text-anchor": text_anchor,
                 # using dominant-baseline because we plan to use <tspan> subtags
                 # otherwise alignment-baseline would be sufficient
                 "dominant-baseline": alignment_baseline,
                 "transform": transform,
+                "style": "font-size: 0;",
             },
         )
         self.svg.add(text_tag)
 
+        classes = " ".join(self.get_attribute_classes(text_obj))
         for line_number, text_line in enumerate(text.replace("\\n", "\n").split("\n")):
-            t_span = self.svg.tspan(text_line, insert=(text_position * self.svg_scale))
+            t_span = self.svg.tspan(text_line, insert=(text_position * self.svg_scale), class_=classes)
             # doing it here and not in tspan constructor because it adds unnecessary spaces
             t_span.update({"dy": f"{line_number}em"})
             text_tag.add(t_span)