I learned that the system was mapping Times and Helvetica to Nimbus equivalents, and that was messing up some websites. On-screen display of Nimbus fonts in Linux is not ideal, even if I disable hinting. They have a way to look awful. I changed the mappings to use Liberation fonts, and the result is much more harmonious text on websites. Nimbus can look really bad on small sizes.
I learned that the system was mapping Times and Helvetica to Nimbus equivalents, and that was messing up some websites. On-screen display of Nimbus fonts in Linux is not ideal, even if I disable hinting. They have a way to look awful. I changed the mappings to use Liberation fonts, and the result is much more harmonious text on websites. Nimbus can look really bad on small sizes.