diff --git a/st/config.h b/st/config.h
index 2deb3d0..9dc9312 100755
--- a/st/config.h
+++ b/st/config.h
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
  *
  * font: see http://freedesktop.org/software/fontconfig/fontconfig-user.html
  */
-static char *font = "Mononoki Nerd Font:pixelsize=16:antialias=true:autohint=true";
+static char *font = "Mononoki Nerd Font:pixelsize=14:antialias=true:autohint=true";
 static int borderpx = 2;
 
 /*
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ char *stty_args = "stty raw pass8 nl -echo -iexten -cstopb 38400";
 char *vtiden = "\033[?6c";
 
 /* Kerning / character bounding-box multipliers */
-static float cwscale = 1.0;
+static float cwscale = 1.1;
 static float chscale = 1.0;
 
 /*