Public bug reported:
With a number of more 'exotic' (often commercial) fonts that do not
follow the Regular/Italic/Bold/Bold Italic structure, Gnome applications
(and by extension, most probably Pango) in Ubuntu Feisty Fawn Beta 1 is
unable to properly present and use available fonts. More specifically it
collapses styles together. For example, supposing a font contains styles
"Light", "Regular", "Semibold", "Bold" and "Black" each having roman and
oblique (italic) variants. Gnome (pango) displays all of the possible
choices, but selecting a number of them would result in the same font
style. e.g. selecting 'regular' and 'light' would both use the 'light'
style.
This is probably a regression from earlier versions, as Edgy and Dapper
did not exhibit this behaviour (Breezy did). This is also well-
documented in the Gnome Bugzilla repository (apologies,
bugzilla.gnome.org is offline at the time of filing this bug) and also
mentioned in the freedesktop bugzilla repository. However, this does not
seem like a fontconfig issue, but a pango issue. KDE 3.5.6 included in
'Feisty Beta 1' properly presents AND uses all installed font and does
not exhibit this behaviour.
While it might be possible, in some cases, to overcome this problem by
using a custom .fonts.conf with <match> this should not be required for
the fonts to work properly in a typical installation. Typical fonts that
exhibit this issue are included in families provided by BT (Bitstream)
and Adobe.
** Affects: pango1.0 (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: Unconfirmed
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Font selection issues (style collapsing) in Gnome 2.18 (pango)
https://launchpad.net/bugs/96513
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