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.
Many commonly used Windows fonts are licensed under proprietary terms, preventing their inclusion with 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].
Wine should come with fonts with the same metrics as the proprietary ones. Note that while the font file is copyrighted, the letterforms themselves are free to copy. We already had the DejaVu project recreate equivalents of existing fonts, no reason we can't have the same for the Segoe and Calibri families.
