SteveStrummerUK Posted February 20, 2022 Posted February 20, 2022 (edited) [Win 10 64-bit] Up until a few weeks ago, a certain website (it's a free postcode/zip-code lottery site) I visit daily was displaying 'normally'. However, with no (known) changes made on my part, the website font has now changed. I've contacted the site and they haven't made any changes at their end. The 'new' font only affects Chrome and Edge, if I visit on Internet Explorer 11 it still displays 'properly'. It don't think it can be a computer-specific problem as the weird font also displays on my Win 10 PC at work. 'Proper' font as still being displayed in IE11: The font now displaying in Chrome (and Edge): Any help/advice on getting the font to display properly gratefully received ☺️ Edited February 21, 2022 by SteveStrummerUK
Shane_B. Posted February 21, 2022 Posted February 21, 2022 Works fine here. Never had a problem. It's the best rendition of that web site I've ever used. Must be your system.
craigb Posted February 21, 2022 Posted February 21, 2022 Try this? Select the Menu button in the top-right corner of the browser window or press Alt + F on your keyboard. ... Click Appearance on the left-hand side then click Customise fonts on the right. Use the drop-down menus to choose which fonts to use for the Standard, Serif, San-serif and Fixed-width styles. Or... Possibly there is a problem with the font on your machine. Check what font the site is using and reinstall it on your machine. This is the answer. If you're tech-savvy enough, right-click > Inspect Element to find out the font, then uninstall and reinstall on your computer. Or... Just click the icon next to the address bar and change the size, font, style, or weight. You can also choose your own font (eg. a .ttf TrueType Font file) and use that. Posting excessive nonsense irritates Stummy! ? 1
sarine Posted February 21, 2022 Posted February 21, 2022 (edited) I don't know where that Comic Sans on steroids came from, but it's odd that it would fallback to something like that. Normally I would delete cookies and web cache, but as this affects two different browsers it probably won't help, unless there's a shared Chromium resource somewhere on disk. The font defined in the CSS is Source Sans Pro, but being a Google font they're usually automatically available from Google's online font cache. It should fallback to Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif - not this thing, whatever it is. I would still probably try at least deleting the browser cache and see if that helps. Next go to "C:\Windows\Fonts\" and see if Source Sans Pro is there. If not, install: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Source+Sans+Pro If yes; close Chrome/Edge, delete the font, and reinstall. If that does nothing, run down Windows' own font cache service and delete the cache: Win-R, type in powershell, ctrl-shift-enter (to run as admin), then run down the service and delete cache: set-service -name fontcache -status stopped rm -r "C:\Windows\ServiceProfiles\LocalService\AppData\Local\FontCache\*","C:\Windows\System32\fntcache.dat" set-service -name fontcache -status running Or install Firefox. Edited February 21, 2022 by sarine added another cache file from System32 for removal 2
paulo Posted February 21, 2022 Posted February 21, 2022 FWIW it works fine for me using Opera in win 8.1. Paulo experiences non idiosyncratic system.
Bapu Posted February 21, 2022 Posted February 21, 2022 2 hours ago, paulo said: FWIW it works fine for me using Opera in win 8.1. Paulo experiences non idiosyncratic system. Paulo expects nonsense in stereo
Shane_B. Posted February 21, 2022 Posted February 21, 2022 1 hour ago, Bapu said: Paulo expects nonsense in stereo
craigb Posted February 21, 2022 Posted February 21, 2022 If anyone is wondering why Steve hasn't responded to this thread, it's because all he can currently see when he comes here is... ? 1
Bapu Posted February 21, 2022 Posted February 21, 2022 17 minutes ago, craigb said: If anyone is wondering why Steve hasn't responded to this thread, it's because all he can currently see when he comes here is... ? Paul is dead?
Shane_B. Posted February 21, 2022 Posted February 21, 2022 35 minutes ago, craigb said: If anyone is wondering why Steve hasn't responded to this thread, it's because all he can currently see when he comes here is... It makes more sense than most of what is actually here. (It sort of looks like the hack screen of the computers in Fallout ?) 1
craigb Posted February 21, 2022 Posted February 21, 2022 24 minutes ago, Bapu said: Paul is dead? He didn't notice that the light had changed.
SteveStrummerUK Posted February 21, 2022 Author Posted February 21, 2022 Thanks to CraigB and sarine for setting me on the correct path. Followed your advice through, and then removed "Dummies" font from my PC. All back to normal ☺️ 1
Bapu Posted February 22, 2022 Posted February 22, 2022 I will sleep better tonight knowing Straummy is back to normal. 1 1
sarine Posted February 22, 2022 Posted February 22, 2022 18 hours ago, SteveStrummerUK said: All back to normal ☺️ Curious, how did you fix this? When your computer craps out it's a learning opportunity. So I love it when other people's computers crap out.
SteveStrummerUK Posted February 22, 2022 Author Posted February 22, 2022 3 hours ago, sarine said: Curious, how did you fix this? I deleted the offending 'Dummies' font from both PC's.
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