Greetings,
I have a question regarding the use of bitmap fonts on Debian.
I prefer bitmap (pixelated) fonts in my terminal and text editor, and thus used:
dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig-config
... to enable the use of bitmap fonts.
However, once this was done, I found that while GTK+ applications work fine,
some web pages used the wrong fonts, selecting a fallback I don't want.
For example, here's Github's fonts preferences:
font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol";
What I end up with, according to Firefox, is Helvetica ; the font is aliased
and quite painful to look at. I have attached a tiny screenshot.
Diving a little further, I ran:
fc-list | grep Helvetica
... to find that all these fallbacks for the usual mainstream fonts (Helvetica,
Courier, Times...) come from the 'xfonts-100dpi'/'xfonts-75dpi' packages, which
the 'xorg' metapackage depends on.
Thus here I am, not sure what to do.
Should these fonts be blacklisted? and if so, how?
The Arch wiki suggests using <selectfont>, <rejectfont> and <glob> in
fonts.conf to pattern-match a font to reject, and indeed this works for me:
<selectfont>
<rejectfont><glob>/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/helv*</glob></rejectfont>
<rejectfont><glob>/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/cour*</glob></rejectfont>
<rejectfont><glob>/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/tim*</glob></rejectfont>
<rejectfont><glob>/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/lu*</glob></rejectfont>
</selectfont>
... but this pattern is very broad! It feels like a hack that I'll stumble over
at some point.
Any similar experiences?
Should I force-remove the package? (if so, any tips for proceeding?)
Thank you for your time, and thank you for any opinion or advice.
