Comment 3 for bug 421814

@Will - do you mean what I tried to describe in comment 5 of bug #407893: "Text Tool attributes messed up.”?

"2) preference set to 'Last used style'

- inconsistency when changing font/size in tool controls bar
I think my issue is that a click on the empty canvas reverts the selected font family in the controls bar to the current default font which is not the same as the last used font. As soon as I type text, the selected font family switches back to the last used font family. This is confusing because you can't see the name of the current font before actually typing text."

The default font BTW can be set in the 'Text and Font…' dialog. It is stored in the preferences but not hooked up as GUI option in the 'Preferences > Tools > Text' section.