Use the Best Font Rendering Available

The Linux font rendering issue (JDK-8212071) has been fixed in Java 12 build 30, if you use that build or later Java to run NetBeans with you are going to get an excellent Font rendering.

Note: Due to these font rendering issues the Snap package comes with a preset of the awt.useSystemAAFontSettings=on property. It can removed by:

mkdir -p $HOME/snap/netbeans/common/data/10.0/etc/
cp /snap/netbeans/current/netbeans/etc/netbeans.conf $HOME/snap/netbeans/common/data/10.0/etc/
gedit $HOME/snap/netbeans/common/data/10.0/etc/netbeans.conf

Ugly Fonts on Ubuntu with Java 9, 10

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