Thanks to everyone who responded.

I doublechecked, and it turned out that the TTF from the font server
were causing the problem.

I have a secondary issue:  My X server pukes on TTF.  If I have a fonts.dir
with the following contents, I get the "Error#56" message (BadFontPath).

##
1
zyme.ttf	-freetype-Zyme-medium-i-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-ascii-0
##

I have the following extensions enabled in my X server; I'm probably
missing something.  Clue-by-four welcomed.

number of extensions:    25
    BIG-REQUESTS
    DOUBLE-BUFFER
    DPMS
    Extended-Visual-Information
    FontCache
    LBX
    MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
    MIT-SHM
    MIT-SUNDRY-NONSTANDARD
    RANDR
    RENDER
    SECURITY
    SHAPE
    SYNC
    TOG-CUP
    X-Resource
    XC-APPGROUP
    XC-MISC
    XFree86-Bigfont
    XFree86-Misc
    XFree86-VidModeExtension
    XInputExtension
    XKEYBOARD
    XTEST
    XVideo


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