Hi, Helvetica is a proprietary font. There is a bitmap-only Helvetica in base. In an attempt to avoid this font, and under the impression bitmap fonts are guaranteed to look bad by design, I made fc-match no longer match bitmap fonts: https://v4.freshbsd.org/commit/netbsd/src/N7XSt9wHfjaVH75A
This is not very visible because netbsd-8 and older versions use pkgsrc fontconfig a lot with its own configuration. I came across a post suggesting that the dislike of bitmap fonts isn't universal: "More "modern" Chinese users prefer sans-serif fonts over the bitmap Chinese font (65% based on a survey at Ubuntu Chinese forum, N>300), while some other users prefer bitmaps."* Has this been a problem for anyone, but it was unclear what is the change causing it? * https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20911