diff --git a/conf/i3/config b/conf/i3/config
index 83d1a92d..336532c3 100644
--- a/conf/i3/config
+++ b/conf/i3/config
@@ -46,7 +46,8 @@ set $ScreenLockCmd i3lock -c 000000 -p win -f
 # This font is widely installed, provides lots of unicode glyphs, right-to-left
 # text rendering and scalability on retina/hidpi displays (thanks to pango).
 # NOTE! Bigger font than 8 is too big for Kincarron
-font pango:DejaVu Sans Mono Book 8
+#                        7 is too big for Sedric with dpi scaling 144
+font pango:DejaVu Sans Mono Book 7
 
 # Before i3 v4.8, we used to recommend this one as the default:
 # font -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--13-120-75-75-C-70-iso10646-1