Comment 1 for bug 1891714

As you noted, the xubuntu-default-settings package depends on fonts-noto-hinted. I've pushed an update for the next release to move it to Recommends (and use the appropriate package).

https://github.com/Xubuntu/xubuntu-default-settings/commit/1ced72f773a1657fdce4fafc501e9e57dba524cb