Comment 43 for bug 502610

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In , Petersen-i (petersen-i) wrote :

(In reply to comment #26)
> Also, I downloaded UmePlus fonts and VL Gothic, and opened them with
> fontconfig, the font quality does not look good to me: many of the glyphs have
> entirely different styles (mincho styles in a gothic font), the stroke
> thickness, glyph baselines and stroke cluster densities are quite uneven. I
> know that both fonts incorporated MPlus fonts, and MPlus is good, but it has
> only ~1600 Han characters.

You should try the IPA fonts, which were recently freed
(they already in fedora and other distros).
They are probably best quality free Japanese fonts available AFAIK.

Matsuu-san, maybe IPA should be listed ahead of VL Gothic?