Note the lower-case i's look like the upper case I. If I increase or decrease the size by face-remapping, the lower case i's look like they should. (I use b&h-Luxi Sans for variable-pitch face, which with the above face attributes defines info-title-3, which is how I noticed this rendering problem.) In GNU Emacs 23.0.60.2 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.12.0) of 2008-06-05 on escher Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.70200000 Important settings: value of $LC_ALL: nil value of $LC_COLLATE: nil value of $LC_CTYPE: nil value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil value of $LC_MONETARY: nil value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil value of $LC_TIME: nil value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8 value of $XMODIFIERS: @im=local locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix default-enable-multibyte-characters: t