I freshly installed Ubuntu Hardy Heron today(updated from feisty). I have the same problem. I was unable to take a screenshot of gdm. I installed guifications, a plugin for pidgin, and it also displayed too big fonts. I think it's the same style. I attached a screenshot.
** Attachment added: "Screenshot of a Guification message" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/12176602/pidgin.png -- Fonts in the GNOME login screen are disproportionately big https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/180881 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs