With default settings Firefox’s fonts on some site get strangely cutted off.
I can notice this on Facebook post’s titles, or very often on cookie policies.

Fonts issue

It seems that Firefox searches for some Windows’s font and then tries to use compatible fonts. This seems to lead to bad results for some reason.

Creating a file in .config/fontconfig named fonts.conf that forces “good replacements” seems the way to go.

Here is my current one:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<fontconfig>
<match>
  <test name="family"><string>Arial</string></test>
    <edit name="family" mode="assign" binding="strong">
      <string>Liberation Sans</string>
    </edit>
  </match>
  <match>
    <test name="family"><string>Helvetica</string></test>
    <edit name="family" mode="assign" binding="strong">
      <string>Liberation Sans</string>
    </edit>
  </match>
    <match>
    <test name="family"><string>Times New Roman</string></test>
    <edit name="family" mode="assign" binding="strong">
      <string>Liberation Serif</string>
    </edit>
  </match>
  <match>
    <test name="family"><string>Times</string></test>
    <edit name="family" mode="assign" binding="strong">
      <string>Liberation Serif</string>
    </edit>
  </match>
  <match>
    <test name="family"><string>Courier New</string></test>
    <edit name="family" mode="assign" binding="strong">
      <string>Liberation Mono</string>
    </edit>
  </match>
</fontconfig>