Bug#1028643: fontconfig: 2.14.1-3 greatly changes font rendering

[Sébastien Villemot]

On Sat, 14 Jan 2023 06:56:53 +0100 Christoph Anton Mitterer <calestyo at scientia.org> wrote:
> Package: fontconfig
> Version: 2.14.1-3
> Severity: important

> After upgrading from 2.13.1-4.5 to 2.14.1-3 the font rendering looks
> noticebly different (and IMO worse).
> 
> Attached are some example images (before/after). It's always the same
> window (i.e. nothing was closed or so, but aptitude changed a bit
> because of the downgrading), just fontconfig was upgraded/downgraded.
> 
> AFAICT not only the line spaces are different, but also the font
> changed (look at the zeros).

As far as I can tell, it’s not that the font rendering has changed, but
that the default monospace font has changed (it was previously DejaVu
Mono Book on my system, now it’s Noto Sans Mono; see the output of “fc-
match monospace”).

I don’t know if this change is intended. Note that it in particular it
impacts the default GNOME configuration.

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