Is it just me or wine needs a bit more polish? Dialogs and menus are rendered with some weird microscopic font. GDI text rendering seemingly doesn't use font fallbacks, so even something like Scintilla or ebook reader don't quite work under wine.
Winetricks[1] can be used to acquire and install a set of default fonts directly from Microsoft.
Furthermore, Windows font fallback differs substantially from that of Linux and similar systems, which generally utilize Fontconfig and FreeType with font relationships defined in configuration files. In contrast, Windows (and consequently Wine) employs a font linking mechanism[2]. Windows handles font linking natively, whereas Wine requires manual registry configuration[3].
[1] https://github.com/Winetricks/winetricks
[2] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/globalization/fonts-layout...
[3] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29028964/font-recognitio...
Doesn't wine delegate rendering to FreeType? Might as well delegate font fallback to FreeType.
It's just you. I set up the DPI and high res option to run old Office apps, and they have very nice fonts both on my 2k laptop 4k screen.
Try `xprop -root -f _XWAYLAND_GLOBAL_OUTPUT_SCALE 32c -set _XWAYLAND_GLOBAL_OUTPUT_SCALE 2`