Debian fonts

[syntone]

I have old Debian 9 (stretch) installed long time ago. After installation the default fonts didn't look very good on display of the box.
I tried some fixes, for example put custom fonts.conf file in /home/username/.config/fontconfig. Also I'e installed a few new fonts, include Ubuntu. Now it looks better. I don't remember what fonts was in default installation. Which fonts looks better on Debian 9 with Xfce DE? Maybe there are some fonts, that looks better than Ubuntu, Noto Sans or Droid Sans?

[Hallvor]

Have you read this? Noto Sans looks great on my computer.

https://wiki.debian.org/Fonts

[Head_on_a_Stick]

I like Microsoft's fonts

FWIW I find that buster doesn't need a custom fonts.conf any more, fonts look great OOTB (IMO).

[syntone]

Microsoft fonts don't work well on linux. I have some of them installed, but all they look really poor, imho.
I have Noto fonts installed, via `sudo apt-get install fonts-noto`
But installer put also a vaste amount of unnecessary Noto versions, all these CJK, TC, JP, KR.
What command will install only default en versions of Noto font?

[Head_on_a_Stick]

Microsoft fonts don't work well on linux. I have some of them installed, but all they look really poor, imho.

Did you rip them from a recent Windows 10 ISO image? Those newer versions are much better than the ones downloaded by the Debian package.

What command will install only default en versions of Noto font?

fonts-noto is a metapackage, see the dependencies for a list of the actual font packages and install what you want individually instead of the metapackage.