Hi,

RE:
> - Deja Vu Sans is a very wide font, and in many cases causes "ugly" ui because of the > amount of space it consumes. Screen space is at a premium and this font makes the
> issue worse by being one of the widest out there. This is a big pain point in places like
> dialogues and skinny window titles.

You may solve the problem by installing the MS compatible TTFs, or any other TTFs found on the Net (for MS TTFs you may use for example the package):
msfonts-1.2.1-1.noarch.rpm

Times New Roman (used to print Times more than a century ago) is very good in terms of letter width and readability.

Regards