diff --git a/modules/view/backends/windows/direct2d.reds b/modules/view/backends/windows/direct2d.reds
index b9a18b343f..93885716ad 100644
--- a/modules/view/backends/windows/direct2d.reds
+++ b/modules/view/backends/windows/direct2d.reds
@@ -2130,8 +2130,11 @@ create-text-format: func [
 		if TYPE_OF(value) = TYPE_NONE [make-font face font]	;-- make a GDI font
 
 		int: as red-integer! values + FONT_OBJ_SIZE
-		len: either TYPE_OF(int) <> TYPE_INTEGER [10][int/value]
-		if len <= 0 [len: 10]
+		len: either TYPE_OF(int) <> TYPE_INTEGER [0][int/value]
+		if len <= 0 [
+			int: as red-integer! #get system/view/fonts/size
+			len: int/value
+		]
 		ft-sz: as float! len
 		size: ConvertPointSizeToDIP(ft-sz)
 
diff --git a/modules/view/backends/windows/gui.reds b/modules/view/backends/windows/gui.reds
index 1d63405a6a..b1d02164e6 100644
--- a/modules/view/backends/windows/gui.reds
+++ b/modules/view/backends/windows/gui.reds
@@ -776,8 +776,6 @@ set-defaults: func [
 			len
 			#get system/view/fonts/system
 			UTF-16LE
-
-		font/lfHeight: font/lfHeight * log-pixels-y / inital-dpi	;-- font/lfHeight isn't affected by DPI change, we update it manually
 		integer/make-at 
 			#get system/view/fonts/size
 			0 - (font/lfHeight * 72 / log-pixels-y)