I haven't looked at font hinting, but if you're root, you should be able to replace the ttf files by files you've edited to behave just the way you want. Have

I haven't looked at font hinting, but if you're root, you should be able to replace the ttf files by files you've edited to behave just the way you want. Have you tried to do just that? If you can't, if you can at least give me fonts, I can try to take a screenshot for you after I've replaced the default fonts by your fonts.