[Bug 209358] Re: fonts in Qt4 look ugly because it uses Nimbus Sans L instead of Deja Vu Sans for Sans-Serif

[luisgarrido]

It seems that this Qt version has hardcoded the generic type "Helvetica"
as "Sans Serif". Helvetica is defined at /etc/fonts/conf.d/30-metric-
aliases.conf as "Nimbus Sans L"

You can change it there or add to your ~/.fonts.conf the following
stanzas:

        <alias binding="same">
          <family>Helvetica</family>
          <accept>
          <family>Arial</family>
          </accept>
        </alias>

Then refresh your font cache with fc-cache, restart your application and
you should be watching a nice, crisp, hinted font.

Substitute Arial for the font of your choice. BEWARE: there are some
consequences to this that I don't understand well because of font
metrics and what not, read this bug for more information:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fontconfig/+bug/203824

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fonts in Qt4 look ugly because it uses Nimbus Sans L instead of Deja Vu Sans for Sans-Serif
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/209358
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