Breezy fonts are worse?

[Carey O'Shea]

Marius Gedminas wrote:

>On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 02:02:24PM +1000, Carey O'Shea wrote:
>
>>I've noticed some fonts in Breezy being worse. I took two screenshots of 
>>http://forums.whirlpool.net.au, one from my Hoary install and the other 
>>from my Breezy install.
>>
>>Hoary -- http://users.on.net/~lncoshea/carey/hoary.jpg
>>Breezy -- http://users.on.net/~lncoshea/carey/breezy.jpg
>>
>>The screenshots are fairly self explanatory, but the Breezy fonts on 
>>this webpage are murky, and the spacing between some characters is very 
>>close and touching. While the Hoary fonts are clear and easy to read, 
>>with the spacing correct and no blurring. Anyone know why this is?
>>
>
>I'm not sure this is it, but I've recently upgraded fontconfig to the
>version in Breezy, and it changed the default font aliases.  Now
>"Sans" refers to Bitstream Vera Sans, while in Hoary "Sans" used to
>refer to Verdana.
>
>I've added this to ~/.fonts.conf to get Verdana back (Bitstream Vera
>Sans does not have all the glyphs necessary for Lithuanian):
>
Marius, thanks for your reply. I added what you said to ~/.fonts.conf 
and it didn't make any difference to that website 
(http://forums.whirlpool.net.au).

So does anyone else have any ideas?