GH, thank you for putting this in. At standard body text font size, around 14px for websites, thin width is a lot less scan-able. You have to make an effort to read it. The feeling is similar to reading "Courier New" body text. You can read it if you make an effort, and you can get accustomed to it, however, it reduces UX by a lot.
The "门" problem exists without the proposed font package installed. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to fonts-noto-cjk in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1575555 Title: Chrome/Chromium use "Thin" as default font weight Status in fonts-noto-cjk package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in fonts-noto-cjk source package in Xenial: Fix Committed Status in fonts-noto-cjk package in Debian: Fix Released Bug description: [Impact] Chromium and Google Chrome use "Thin" as the default Noto Sans CJK font weight, which makes some Chinese and Japanese web pages difficult to read, and thus gives a bad user experience. The fonts-noto-cjk version in the PPA https://launchpad.net/~gunnarhj/+archive/ubuntu/fonts-noto-cjk installs 7 weight specific font files instead of a single "super" file. This works around the Chromium/Chrome issue. Note: It has been fixed in yakkety via autosync, so "backporting" yakkety (as an SRU) instead of uploading from the PPA is an option. [Test Case] To reproduce the bug: * Install Chromium or Google Chrome. * Go to <http://www.gamer.com.tw> and notice the very thin characters. * Install fonts-noto-cjk from the PPA and notice the difference. [Regression Potential] This is about another font packaging form, without any change in glyph coverage, so the the regression risk should be low. [Original description] The package seems to only "thin" variant of the font, which makes it very unreadable in applications such as Chrome (when it has to fall back on Chinese fonts on a mostly-English page). I had to remove the package and then manually download the font from Google website and install it to make the regular weight available Release: 16.04 LTS Package Version: 1.004+repack1-1 Expected: All weights of the noto cjk font to be installed Happened: Only the "thin" weight of the font seems to be installed To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fonts-noto-cjk/+bug/1575555/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
