Sharp breaks Fontconfig of multiple packages

[Glutch]

Are you using the latest version? Is the version currently in use as reported by npm ls sharp the same as the latest version as reported by npm view sharp dist-tags.latest?
Yes. 0.27.0

What are the steps to reproduce?
install either text2png or textToImage. Import sharp, suddenly text2png and / or textToImage packages custom font stops working. Since this happens to 2 different packages i assume its a problem with sharp somehow.

What is the expected behaviour?

Are you able to provide a minimal, standalone code sample, without other dependencies, that demonstrates this problem?

const fs = require('fs')
const sharp = require('sharp')
const text2png = require('text2png')

const image = text2png('texterer', {
  color: 'white',
  backgroundColor: 'black',
  lineSpacing: 10,
  padding: 20,
  font: '30px Alata',
  localFontPath: 'Alata-Regular.ttf',
  localFontName: 'Alata'
})

[lovell]

If this occurs only on macOS then it probably relates to #2399

text2png is based on canvas and therefore cairo and pango, so if you want it to use CoreText for font discovery rather than fontconfig, you can set the PANGOCAIRO_BACKEND="coretext" environment variable.

[lovell]

I'm planning to revert the change for #2399 as it appears to be causing too many problems.

[lovell]

v0.27.1 now available