Newly adopted font NOT great (used in Thunar/elsewhere)

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Hi,

I logged in today to attest that the new font that has being adopted in the latest update is wider, more geometric/concentric and generally less readable.

Please restore the font to one used previously.

Thanks

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What font?

There have been no default font changes as far as I’m aware.

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Maybe look at what has happened to Noto. Maybe someone has just broken the minimap of it?

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The noto-font packages have had recent updates based on upstream commits, but I have not noticed any issues myself.

You are free to choose any font you wish if you don’t like the default one.

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Yes, basically every letter is a pixel wider, and more highly anti-aliased (ie. less crisp) also more concentric All I did was update. After updating the ‘fi’ was a weird ‘"O’ and the ellipsis was a large bullet dot.

However the font was still good. After a reset, weird font. The system font was showing up a Noto Display. Is that normal? Do I need to logout to reset the system font, because changing it is not doing anything.

Thanks

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Maybe try Noto Sans Regular instead of Noto Sans Display Regular?

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Tried, but nothing happened. Is ‘Display Regular’ the default font now? Is there a reset command I would need to do?

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Yes, it seems Noto Sans Display replaced Noto Sans and Sans Regular replaced Sans.

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I’m going to assume this is where things have gone wrong, imo.

The non-Display font may have the minimap that the OS was using before whereas Display is generally for print.