Inspired by what JI Xiang reported above, and as an experiment, I created a version of fonts-noto-cjk, which installs 36 individual font files instead of the NotoSansCJK.ttc bundle, and uploaded it to this PPA:
https://launchpad.net/~gunnarhj/+archive/ubuntu/fonts-noto-cjk Seems to work, which indicates that there is some incompatibility between Google's NotoSansCJK.ttc bundle and Google's own web browser. There is a big problem with this solution, though: The .deb file in the PPA is huge, really huge: 372 MiB to be compared with the original .deb file of 71 MiB. It should be said that neither Google Chrome nor Chromium is included by default in Ubuntu. Considering that, and taken into account that fonts- noto-cjk is included in the ISO files of both Ubuntu and the flavors, it's not likely that adding 300 MiB to work around this issue will be considered a reasonable measure. So probably we need another solution. But in the meantime the PPA is available for your convenience. :) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to fonts-noto-cjk in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1575555 Title: Chrome/Chromium use "Thin" as default font weight Status in fonts-noto-cjk package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: The package seems to only "thin" variant of the font, which makes it very unreadable in applications such as Chrome (when it has to fall back on Chinese fonts on a mostly-English page). I had to remove the package and then manually download the font from Google website and install it to make the regular weight available Release: 16.04 LTS Package Version: 1.004+repack1-1 Expected: All weights of the noto cjk font to be installed Happened: Only the "thin" weight of the font seems to be installed To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fonts-noto-cjk/+bug/1575555/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
