Corrupted font display under GNOME 3

Why do my fonts suddenly go from displaying normally to looking like this under GNOME 3?
The same thing happens under Cinnamon. Other desktop environments don't have this problem.
I'm using an ATI Mobility X1400 notebook video card.

Hi Unia,
This problem predates the recent Fontconfig changes.
By "suddenly", I mean that at some random time after I login to my GNOME 3 session, the fonts go from normal to corrupted. It could be 30 seconds or it could be 30 minutes.
The fonts don't always stay corrupted, either: for example, at another random point in time, my XChat fonts will go back to normal, but my VirtualBox and Chromium fonts will still be corrupted. If I logout and login again, the problem is fixed, until they decide to randomly break again.

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