diff --git a/libgitg/gitg-diff-view-commit-details.vala b/libgitg/gitg-diff-view-commit-details.vala
index 2abdf8cb..400d6717 100644
--- a/libgitg/gitg-diff-view-commit-details.vala
+++ b/libgitg/gitg-diff-view-commit-details.vala
@@ -226,7 +226,7 @@ class Gitg.DiffViewCommitDetails : Gtk.Grid
 
 		var author = commit.get_author();
 
-		d_label_author.label = author_to_markup(author);
+		d_label_author.label = _("<small>Authored by</small> %s").printf(author_to_markup(author));
 
 		var committer = commit.get_committer();
 
@@ -234,7 +234,7 @@ class Gitg.DiffViewCommitDetails : Gtk.Grid
 		    committer.get_email() != author.get_email() ||
 		    committer.get_time().compare(author.get_time()) != 0)
 		{
-			d_label_committer.label = _("Committed by %s").printf(author_to_markup(committer));
+			d_label_committer.label = _("<small>Committed by</small> %s").printf(author_to_markup(committer));
 		}
 		else
 		{
diff --git a/libgitg/resources/ui/gitg-diff-view-commit-details.ui b/libgitg/resources/ui/gitg-diff-view-commit-details.ui
index 6aafcfb6..bc7a5a90 100644
--- a/libgitg/resources/ui/gitg-diff-view-commit-details.ui
+++ b/libgitg/resources/ui/gitg-diff-view-commit-details.ui
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
                 <property name="can_focus">True</property>
                 <property name="halign">start</property>
                 <property name="valign">start</property>
-                <property name="label">Author name &amp;lt;&lt;a href="email@example.com"&gt;email@example.com&lt;/a&gt;&amp;gt;</property>
+                <property name="label">Authored by &lt;a href="email@example.com" title="email@example.com"&gt;Author name&lt;/a&gt;</property>
                 <property name="selectable">True</property>
                 <property name="ellipsize">end</property>
                 <property name="use_markup">True</property>
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@
                 <property name="halign">start</property>
                 <property name="valign">start</property>
                 <property name="margin_top">6</property>
-                <property name="label">Committed by Committer name &amp;lt;&lt;a href="email@example.com"&gt;email@example.com&lt;/a&gt;&amp;gt;</property>
+                <property name="label">Committed by &lt;a href="email@example.com" title="email@example.com"&gt;Committer name&lt;/a&gt;</property>
                 <property name="selectable">True</property>
                 <property name="ellipsize">end</property>
                 <property name="use_markup">True</property>