Really ugly default web fonts

My web fonts in Chromium look awful. The default font that shows in form posts, newspaper articles, etc. is extremely low res. I feel like there should be a font sub setting that I'm missing or something got broken. Web text italics especially are nasty.
Fonts outside of normal web browsing look fine. System fonts, things in word processing documents, all of that looks great. I have some clear type and screen dithering and whatnot or whatever it's all called enabled, so it's not that. It's the actual font choice for default web text that's ugly. What can I do to see what's being used and how can I change it?
screenshot> http://i.imgur.com/GshVo.png
Look at those italics! Nasty!
Last edited by hooya (2012-09-14 01:51:20)

I had those fonts installed from day 1 on this system more than a year ago. When the fontconfig update came around it made a lot of fonts not display properly.
Simply installing fontconfig-infinality definitely fixed my web fonts, and restored some things to how they were before. Now I need to figure out how to adjust cleartype kinds of settings so I can make them look like how I want.
But this is definitely better. I can see things on the internet again.

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