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  Bug#892370: Aerial Bold chosen when it should not be Wouter Verhelst <wouter@debian.org> - 2018-03-08 16:30 +0100
    Bug#892370: Aerial Bold chosen when it should not be Vasudev Kamath <vasudev@copyninja.info> - 2018-03-11 16:50 +0100
      Bug#892370: Aerial Bold chosen when it should not be Fabian Greffrath <fabian@debian.org> - 2018-03-11 21:00 +0100

#885889 — Bug#892370: Aerial Bold chosen when it should not be

Package: fonts-arkpandora
Version: 2.04-1
Severity: normal

Hi,

fonts-arkpandora contains a number of fonts, amongst which Aerial and
Aerial Bold.

For some reason, on my system firefox chooses Aerial Bold when it should
instead choose the regular Aerial font. As a result, almost all websites
that I visit are displayed in bold. This is rather annoying.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers unstable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unreleased'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386, m68k, arm64

Kernel: Linux 4.15.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=nl_BE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=nl_BE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=nl_BE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

-- no debconf information

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#886421

Hi Wouter,

Wouter Verhelst <wouter@debian.org> writes:

> Package: fonts-arkpandora
> Version: 2.04-1
> Severity: normal
>
> Hi,
>
> fonts-arkpandora contains a number of fonts, amongst which Aerial and
> Aerial Bold.
>
> For some reason, on my system firefox chooses Aerial Bold when it should
> instead choose the regular Aerial font. As a result, almost all websites
> that I visit are displayed in bold. This is rather annoying.

I see, I do not see any specific configuration for this in the
fontconfig file shipped by the fonts-arkpandora package. Do you have any
specific web pages which you found this problem?.

Mean while any one else from fonts team have any idea on this issue?. Is
it related to fontconfig configurations?

Cheers,

--
Vasudev

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Hi guys,

Am Sonntag, den 11.03.2018, 21:05 +0530 schrieb Vasudev Kamath:
> Mean while any one else from fonts team have any idea on this issue?.
> Is it related to fontconfig configurations?

I don't think it is related to the fontconfig config file that we
patch/ship, but have a look at this:

 fc-match -a aerial | head -n 2
Aerial.ttf: "sans" "Regular"
AerialBd.ttf: "Aerial" "Bold"

The regular variant doesn't identify itself as "Aerial" but merely as
"sans", so the Bold variant is the first one known by the name
"Aerial".

Looks like the regular font is broken. Anyway, didn't we decide earlier
in #872766 to drop this package from Debian altogether in favour of
fonts-liberation or fonts-croscore?

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