The man pages for the common fontconfig troubleshooting utilities should document the super-useful FC_DEBUG environment variables, which provides information about the font matching process unavailable otherwise. Documentation can be derived from the fcdbg.c file.
Added a lovely table of values that FC_DEBUG accepts to the fontconfig user documentation (which ends up as the fonts-conf(5) man page).
Thanks Keith!
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