How to draw with a default Android font on a Canvas?

I'm trying to draw a text on Canvas like this (kinda pseudocode below):

Paint p = new Paint(ANTI_ALIAS_FLAG);
p.setTextSize(18);
...
mCanvas.drawText("Hello StackOverflow!", 50, 50, p);

My problem is that the result looks really "weird". It uses some bold-like font, which is badly aliased, looks not pretty and "squarish".

I tried to play with p.setTextSize(), by setting various sizes, also I tried to set different default Typefaces by using p.setTypeface(Typeface) and setting DEFAULT, NORMAL, SERIF, SANS_SERIF etc, but it still looks ugly.

On the contrary the font used throughout the rest of the system looks really nice, and I'd like to use it.

How? :)