Separate CSS classes for word vs character counts in bottom bar

I’d like to style them separately (e.g. hide the character count)

This should do it:

/* change style of status bar (word count and character count)  */
.status-bar-item-segment {
    font-size: 1rem !important;
}

/* hide character count */
.status-bar-item-segment:last-child {
    display: none;
}