terminus font got fuzzy (antialiased?) in 2019.1.3

I use Terminus TTF font in editor. It changed how it looks between 2018.3.6 and 2019.1.3 and I prefer the former one. Here's the comparison on a clean config, 2018 on the left and 2019 on the right:

It seems that it is related to the JRE that each version is bundled with:

• 2018 is bundled with 1.8.0_152
• 2019 is bundled with 1.8.0_202
• System JRE on Ubuntu 18 is 1.8.0_212

If I boot 2019 version with JRE from 2018 version then the font looks like on the left again. Interestingly, if I boot with system JRE then the font looks like on the left too (in addition it also shows a warning for "Enable font ligatures" that this JRE is known to have performance issues related to ligatures support).

So it seems that something changed specifically in JRE bundled in 2019. My question is what and if it can be reverted.