I have been having the same issue, except I noticed it for Japanese font rendering (though it also affects Chinese etc).
Chrome selects CJK JP thin for all lang="ja" (when falling back to "sans-serif" at the end of the font stack) regardless of css font-weight specified. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1575555 Title: Chrome/Chromium use "Thin" as default font weight To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fonts-noto-cjk/+bug/1575555/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs