Since a few days ago, Visual Studio Code badly displays fonts. I'm currently under Debian Buster with Mate as the desktop environment. As I don't know how to correctly describe the display, here are some screenshots (it's particularly visible in the fourth one) :
Here are the actions I remember having done before noticing the problem :
And, finally, here are the tests I've made around this problem :
The problem came from libfreetype6. Copying the version from the stable release of Debian into /usr/share/code
solved the problem. Source