This is intended. It was designed like this since this menu's inception (2010), and the fact that it briefly used the main font size in all of its components was a regression that got fixed recently. Read bug 1080076 (comment 5) and https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Sound#Indicator_and_menu. Also... I don't really agree it's uglier this way...
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