Panels in the HTMLStatusBar do not always reflect the StatusBar Font setting when Style is set to a non-HTML style (Text, Time, Date, etc). Only the Font Name seems to have a universal effect. Size affects Time & Date styles but Text is only sized when alignment is Left. When it's Right or Center the size defaults to 9pt. Font Color seems to be completly ignored.
We could see this issue and we applied a fix.
The next update will address this.