Sorry, I made a mistake. The output was without fonts-uncore-core installed. With the package the output is as follows.
Font family: Ubuntu plain=null bold=** TrueType Font: Family=Ubuntu Name=Ubuntu Bold style=1 fileName=/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ubuntu-font- family/Ubuntu-B.ttf italic=** TrueType Font: Family=Ubuntu Name=Ubuntu Italic style=2 fileName=/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ubuntu-font-family /Ubuntu-RI.ttf bolditalic=** TrueType Font: Family=Ubuntu Name=Ubuntu Bold Italic style=3 fileName=/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ubuntu-font- family/Ubuntu-BI.ttf I copied fontconfig.properties to the proper location which fixed the bold fonts. Font family: Ubuntu plain=** TrueType Font: Family=Ubuntu Name=Ubuntu style=0 fileName=/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ubuntu-font- family/Ubuntu-R.ttf bold=** TrueType Font: Family=Ubuntu Name=Ubuntu Bold style=1 fileName=/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ubuntu-font- family/Ubuntu-B.ttf italic=** TrueType Font: Family=Ubuntu Name=Ubuntu Italic style=2 fileName=/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ubuntu-font-family /Ubuntu-RI.ttf bolditalic=** TrueType Font: Family=Ubuntu Name=Ubuntu Bold Italic style=3 fileName=/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ubuntu-font- family/Ubuntu-BI.ttf In case someone else with Oracle Java wants to reproduce, I'm listing simple steps. $ apt-get download openjdk-7-jre-headless $ dpkg-deb -x openjdk-7-jre-headless_7u25-2.3.12-4ubuntu3_i386.deb jdk $ sudo cp jdk/etc/java-7-openjdk/fontconfig.properties /usr/lib/jvm/j2sdk1.7-oracle/jre/lib/fontconfig.Ubuntu.properties -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/937200 Title: Fat fonts in Swing applications To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/openjdk/+bug/937200/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs