change metal L&F font size

[Bobby Anderson]

I am using the default swing look and feel of metal. But I am running into a problem with a difference in font size between windows and linux. So I still want to use metal but I want to adjust the font size. Is there an easy way to do this?

[Michael Dunn]

is the font difference very noticeable?
could it be the default bold works on windows, not on linux?

to turn it off
UIManager.put("swing.boldMetal", Boolean.FALSE);

if still a difference, iterate the UIManager looking for fonts, and setting your own font (as a FontUIResource)