Bitmap fonts

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Hi,

Helvetica is a proprietary font. There is a bitmap-only Helvetica in
base. In an attempt to avoid this font, and under the impression bitmap
fonts are guaranteed to look bad by design, I made fc-match no longer
match bitmap fonts:
https://v4.freshbsd.org/commit/netbsd/src/N7XSt9wHfjaVH75A

This is not very visible because netbsd-8 and older versions use pkgsrc
fontconfig a lot with its own configuration.

I came across a post suggesting that the dislike of bitmap fonts isn't
universal:
"More "modern" Chinese users prefer sans-serif fonts over the bitmap
Chinese font (65% based on a survey at Ubuntu Chinese forum, N>300),
while some other users prefer bitmaps."*

Has this been a problem for anyone, but it was unclear what is the
change causing it?

* https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20911