Comment 4 for bug 620537

I do not see that. I hacked my local CSS rules to always use the font for Launchpad when the font was released. This issue may relate to browser zooming.

The issue in the picture looks like a line-height problem and sprite do set that, but that picture shows them offset from their text just like they are now. The root-index has some line-height exceptions, but none are at play on that portlet. The markup in the template is somewhat dubious (inline elements with block element siblings). We could wrap the sentence in a <p> so that the browser does not need to guess at how to interpret the text next to the <ul>