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[Contribucious <contribucious@xxxxxxxxx>]

+1 for me too. Also, it's more logical I think. ;-)
Many consecutive tweets can be considered as "a document", like reading a .doc.
So, a suitable font adapted to read a lot is logical I would say.

I like to use a font-size of 10 for "default font", but 9 for "document font".
Therefore, here, font in Birdie looks too big IMHO (10 used rather than 9 so), especially the Name of the person who tweeted (as always a little bit more large than the tweet itself regarding the font-size).

Also, we often don't use the same font-family for document font (more
suitable for the long read) than the rest.

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Title:
  Use document font

Status in Birdie:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Currently, it looks like Birdie uses the default platform UI font. On
  elementary, this is Droid Sans. While this is fine for normal UI
  elements (buttons, menus, etc.) with shorter text, it's not the best
  for longer messages like tweets. Additionally, it doesn't have
  multiple weights to play with nor does it have a true italic.

  Instead, we should either use the platform ocument font (Open Sans on
  elementary), or something a little prettier. The new Twitter app on
  Android actually uses a much lighter weight typeface which looks super
  slick, so perhaps we could look into that.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: elementary OS 0.2
  Package: birdie 0.1+r104-0+pkg2~precise1 [origin: LP-PPA-birdie-team-daily]
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-38.61-generic 3.2.37
  Uname: Linux 3.2.0-38-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.1+elementary3~precise1
  Architecture: amd64
  CrashDB: birdie
  Date: Wed Apr  3 23:05:29 2013
  EcryptfsInUse: Yes
  ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/birdie
  InstallationMedia: elementary OS 0.2 "Luna" - Daily amd64 (20130226)
  MarkForUpload: True
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: birdie
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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