Terrible Font Selection / Rendering on Artful

[md_5]

Not sure of the correct description of the problem, but the fonts on Artful are very difficult to read, they appear blurry and too large (aliasing and scaling issues maybe?). This is especially a problem on menus, but since it is hard to get a screenshot of that I have just included a Swing text area. Both are on clean installations with just openjdk-8-jdk installed, and it is quite apparent to me that the text on Zesty is better.

This also affects openjdk-9-jdk on Artful, although I have not tried that package on Zesty.

Happy to help debug, but I'm not sure where to begin, fc-match shows DejaVu Sans / Serif on both installs.
Worth noting that the Oracle JDKs look better, but they package Lucida font and their own renderer.

Thanks

[md_5 (md-5)]

Screenshot of Artful blurring to complement good Zesty screenshot above.

[md_5 (md-5)]

Ok I did some more digging and it looks like this is a bug in libfreetype6 and not this package.
Forcing a downgrade of libfreetype6 to Zesty fixes the issue, and force upgrading Zesty to Artful libfreetype6 introduces the issue.

[md_5 (md-5)]

Looks to be https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/freetype/+bug/1722508

Apologies for the noise

[Tiago Stürmer Daitx (tdaitx)]

Thanks for the bug report and then tracking it down to libfreetype6. I have marked it as a duplicate of bug #1722508.