Noto / Noto CJK: blurry font

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Hi all,

Today I found that selecting Noto Sans in Systemsettings makes filenames in Dolphin written in Japanese a bit blurry. Setting NotoCJK gives the opposite effect – Japanese symbols are crisp now but regular Latin becomes blurry. Is there a way to fix this?

1st is regular Noto, 2nd is CJK

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I’m using Koruri as a workaround for now but fixing Noto would’ve been a better way to go.

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A somewhat similar issue is observed in Ubuntu Gnome as well.
So it must be an upstream thing…

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Kinda resolved using an old workaround from Arch boards, adding the following to ~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf helped:

<alias>
  <family>serif</family>
  <prefer>
   <family>DejaVu Serif</family>
   <family>IPAPMincho</family>
  </prefer>
 </alias>
 <alias>
  <family>sans-serif</family>
  <prefer>
   <family>DejaVu Sans</family>
   <family>IPAPGothic</family>
  </prefer>
 </alias>
 <alias>
  <family>monospace</family>
  <prefer>
   <family>DejaVu Sans Mono</family>
   <family>IPAGothic</family>
  </prefer>
 </alias>
 <match target="font">
  <edit name="antialias" mode="assign">
   <bool>true</bool>
  </edit>
 </match>

Not marking as SOLVED as a proper solution is still to be found.