Fontconfig

[Lyberta]

So apparently KXStudio repos have fontconfig and it has the newer version than in Debian Testing. After update to 2.11.94-0ubuntu1.1 the fonts of Firefox and Qt apps became extremely horrible. I have other PCs with Debian testing and they have normal fonts. How can I reverse this? I've tried rolling back the versions but that didn't help.

[Lyberta]

I've never messed with fonts myself, and the MATE GUI for fonts has the same settings between machines. I'm happy to post contents of config files which you'd request.

[Lyberta]

Phew, I downgraded all fontconfig packages and fonts returned back to normal. I have no idea how Ubuntu users deal with these, they are horrible.

[Lyberta]

Fontconfig 2.12 arrived to Debian Testing and fonts became horrible even on PCs without KXStudio repos. Apparently it's not an Ubuntu's fault.

EDIT: Oh, thankfully, I had a PC with 2.10 and was able to find the source of the problem. Remove /etc/fonts/conf.d/10-hinting-slight.conf and fonts will be back to normal.

[autostatic]

Remove /etc/fonts/conf.d/10-hinting-slight.conf and fonts will be back to normal.

That's an option but with a future update the file will be installed again. Maybe commenting the whole file would be a better option.

[Lyberta]

Alright, a few weeks later there was another update that actually notified users about the change and contains the proper way to revert:

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dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig-config

...and select full hinting.