[SOLVED] Lost bold fonts after upgrade

Malvineous · 2015-12-27 04:36:54

Hi all,

After recently upgrading my system, GTK programs no longer seem to be able to render fonts as bold.

Liferea cannot show unread news items in bold, and Firefox cannot show unread tabs in a bold font either - it just renders as normal non-bold text. Weirdly, Firefox is still able to render bold text in web pages, just not in the UI.

Does anyone know what could be causing this?

Last edited by Malvineous (2015-12-27 05:48:37)

jasonwryan · 2015-12-27 04:43:27

Have you tried swapping out your font?

Malvineous · 2015-12-27 05:36:06

I'm not quite sure what you mean. But you made me realise I don't even know what font it is, so I went looking. It turns out it is the Tahoma font, and it's also the only one that won't show up in bold. Other fonts seem to work fine.

What would cause Tahoma to lose the ability to be drawn in bold? I can't see anything in /etc/fonts/ that might cause this, but I am not very familiar with font configuration so I'm not really sure what to look for.

jasonwryan · 2015-12-27 05:40:11

Tahoma is a Microsoft font, so you would have installed it from the AUR: have you updated it recently?

Malvineous · 2015-12-27 05:48:18

No I haven't, but I just checked now and I was using the same version as the latest in AUR (ttf-tahoma).

It looks like this font is kind of free, so I tried removing ttf-tahoma and using the .ttf files from a Windows install. This seems to have done the trick, so it looks like the issue is some incompatibility with Wine's bold version of Tahoma, which is the version installed by the AUR ttf-tahoma package.

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[SOLVED] Lost bold fonts after upgrade

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