Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> Looks good to me too, but this reminded me of one thing: Emacs (by
>> default) chooses a variable-pitch font that is markedly smaller than the
>> monospaced font, in my experience, and you can see the same in your
>> screenshot.
>
> Here the font of variable-pitch face is actually larger by a pixel or
> two, but this is MS-Windows.
>
>> I think we should look into that
>
> It probably has something to do with how we choose fonts, and also
> with which fonts are available.

Hm -- I wonder whether things have changed, because if I try it in
"emacs -Q" now, it doesn't look as bad as I think I remember it being: