Why does Roboto Regular display as bold?

I downloaded the Roboto font from the Android website. All the weights—including Roboto Regular—display properly in the font viewer, but when I try to set it as my title bar font (with gnome-tweak-tool) or use it in an application, Roboto Regular always displays as Roboto Bold. As far as I can tell, this only seems to affect Roboto.

I am on Ubuntu 12.10 now (with Unity replaced with Gnome 3 if that matters). I never checked in 12.04, but I know I did not have this problem in 11.04.

Solution 1:

Here is a tutorial I found linked to on the Arch Linux AUR page. http://nileshgr.com/2013/02/24/configuring-roboto-font-in-linux