Comment 7 for bug 18037

The situation hasn't changed. Fonts still look too bold at high pixels sizes. E.g. on my laptop (133 dpi display) Arial 10pt looks fine, but Arial 11pt is too bold.

You should be able to see the problem on lower dpi displays too but it will occur with larger pt sizes on those. Just open gnome-font-properties, choose Arial for instance and increase the font size step by step. At some point the displayed font will look too bold.