On Mon, 2022-05-23 at 14:05 -0600, home user wrote:
are some fonts actually on my work station twice?
That can happen. Different things may provide those fonts.
[tim@rocky ~]$ locate NimbusMonoPS-Bold /usr/share/fonts/urw-base35/NimbusMonoPS-Bold.afm /usr/share/fonts/urw-base35/NimbusMonoPS-Bold.otf /usr/share/fonts/urw-base35/NimbusMonoPS-Bold.t1 /usr/share/fonts/urw-base35/NimbusMonoPS-BoldItalic.afm /usr/share/fonts/urw-base35/NimbusMonoPS-BoldItalic.otf /usr/share/fonts/urw-base35/NimbusMonoPS-BoldItalic.t1 /usr/share/ghostscript/Resource/Font/NimbusMonoPS-Bold /usr/share/ghostscript/Resource/Font/NimbusMonoPS-BoldItalic
A second issue is that fonts that are different show up in the font tools with the same name. In this screen capture (on the google drive): "https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qMfya_ObKot3jNbzYjTI7y17Kb0S83lz/view?usp=s...", notice 4 fonts called "Noto Sans". They are different from each other. Notice 4 fonts called "Noto Sans, Bold". They are different from each other. There are other examples.
For things like that, the first thought that springs to mind is someone, or several people, have created an inaccurate copy of a font (for some older traditional fonts, that often seems to happen). The next thing is whether the font has been created in multiple languages and they're being separately considered.
For what it's worth, I've often noticed that Roman characters in Asian fonts are often diabolical. The sizing and spacing is all over the place. That's not unique to Linux, I'd often see that kind of printing in service manuals, where the English text looked like it's been printed using a 100 year old typewriter that fell off a cliff. And I get that in PDF files, from time to time, where I don't have the font they used, they didn't embed it, and the automatically picked font uses characters with oddball sizing, spacing, some overlapping, like a ransom note.