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Since a few days ago, Visual Studio Code badly displays fonts. I'm currently under Debian Buster with Mate as the desktop environment. As I don't know how to correctly describe the display, here are some screenshots (it's particularly visible in the fourth one) :

Here are the actions I remember having done before noticing the problem :

  • Creating a backup with Back In Time (I doubt the problem comes from this one)
  • Upgrading from Debian "Stretch" 9 to Debian "Buster" 10
  • Installing Firefox Quantum, libfontconfig1, fontconfig-config and libnss3 from Sid (following this site)

And, finally, here are the tests I've made around this problem :

  • Using a new desktop environment (KDE Plasma) : the problem does not occur but I'd like to keep Mate
  • Changing Mate's window manager (from Marco to OpenBox and awesome) : the problem still occurs
  • Removing Visual Studio Code, purging it and be sure that every config file is gone, then reinstalling Code : the problem is still there
  • Downgrading Firefox and the other packages mentioned above : still there
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  • This question has so many OS-specific components that it belongs on [Super User](https://superuser.com). – herrbischoff Dec 18 '17 at 01:27
  • Thank you! I didn't know about Super User. I found my answer [there](https://superuser.com/questions/1265411/font-rendering-issue-in-visual-studio-code): it was just a problem with libfreetype6. – Staquet Gaëtan Dec 19 '17 at 15:21

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The problem came from libfreetype6. Copying the version from the stable release of Debian into /usr/share/code solved the problem. Source

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