Ditto what ~james-fsck says. The problem is that the adjustment above or below 1.0 is incremented each time unity resets, so if someone chose smaller, it keeps getting smaller, or if someone chooses bigger, the font keeps getting bigger. The tweak tool is a temporarily workaround, but the problem is in the way the display preferences interacts with the font sizes - i.e. it keeps re-applying the change.
Ditto what ~james-fsck says. The problem is that the adjustment above or below 1.0 is incremented each time unity resets, so if someone chose smaller, it keeps getting smaller, or if someone chooses bigger, the font keeps getting bigger. The tweak tool is a temporarily workaround, but the problem is in the way the display preferences interacts with the font sizes - i.e. it keeps re-applying the change.