+2  A: 

Answering my own question here. The problem was that I was extending Surface (which I really in the end didn't have a proper reason for) which apparently uses OpenGL for rendering and OpenGL and custom TTF fonts don't mix.

When I switched to extending just View, the font looks perfect.

TuomasR  2010-10-14 12:29:57

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