Improve Fonts on the Streamed Fractal browser

[philippemnoel]

Feature Name & Description Right now the font on the streamed Fractal are very different from the macOS/Windows fonts -- I'm not sure we'll be able to have the same one, but just like Twemoji can help us have really nice Emojis on Linux, maybe we can do the same with fonts.

This is apparently pretty important! About half of beta users have complained about this so far.

Users Mentioned: 3

[philippemnoel]

Bumping this up some priority, more people are complaining about the font

[philippemnoel]

Some quick search info, basically we can install some lookalike fonts to the Apple fonts, and install the Microsoft fonts, and move them to the ./fonts folder.

https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-get-mac-and-windows-fonts-in-ubuntu-linux/

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/03/make-ubuntu-look-like-mac-5-steps

https://itsfoss.com/make-ubuntu-look-like-macos/

https://securitronlinux.com/debian-testing/install-mac-osx-fonts-on-linux-easily/

https://www.instructables.com/How-to-Install-Microsoft-and-Mac-fonts-on-Ubuntu/

[philippemnoel]

https://www.onmsft.com/how-to/how-to-install-microsoft-fonts-on-linux

[philippemnoel]

More people have been requesting better fonts, I'm bumping this up in priority:

Some potential solutions: https://securitronlinux.com/debian-testing/install-mac-osx-fonts-on-linux-easily/ https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/6b5ch8/how_to_achieve_macos_font_rendering_in_linux_in/ https://aswinmohan.me/posts/better-fonts-on-linux/ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/03/make-ubuntu-look-like-mac-5-steps https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ttf-mac-fonts/

[philippemnoel]

closing, @rpadaki's PR fixed this for now -- if we get more reports of font unsatisfaction we'll re-open