[Bug 1874842] Re: Fonts installed using msttfcorefonts package (ttf-mscorefonts-installer) are not detected by some sites

[Juozas Pocius]

After some googling & investigation I found out that Nimbus Sans substitutes Helvetica when fonts-urw-base35 package is installed but it does not render correctly on some sites compared to Soto Sans or Arial. Running 'fc-match Helvetica' returns 'NimbusSans-Regular.otf: "Nimbus Sans" "Regular"'
Workaround would be to add an override to chrome/userContent.css file in the profile folder and then restart the browser:
@font-face {
	font-family: Helvetica;
	src: local('Noto Sans');
}
Alternate method would be creating ~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf xml file if it doesn't exist and adding override there, but it would be not as easy syntax-wise compared to the above method.

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  Fonts installed using msttfcorefonts package (ttf-mscorefonts-
  installer) are not detected by some sites

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