[wickywills]

Ok, not sure if this is the correct forum for this, but it's been bugging me for ages!

Basically, when I view certain websites in Chrome, IE9 and Opera, I get an annoying bold font like this:

 bold-font-problem.jpg (265.58K)
Number of downloads: 34 (why is everything bold??)

However, when I view the same website in Firefox, it looks like this:

 normal-font.jpg (409.19K)
Number of downloads: 29 (looks 'normal')

I have tried this on various machines at work and at home with completely mixed results and it's driving me crazy!

Anyone know how I can get this website (below) to look like my second screenshot in ALL browsers?

http://blogs.compute..._date_september

Obivously it's not just the above website, I can list a few others that also seem to have this problem. Trouble is that it makes them difficult to read, and is preventing me from using Chrome as my main browser

This post has been edited by wickywills: 22 November 2011 - 05:25 PM

[Gaelen]

usually because they havent set a font weight and different browsers default to different weights on different texts.

[J.P]

Add

P {
  font-weight: normal;
}

It should stop any cross-browser naughtiness.

[wickywills]

J.P, on 22 November 2011 - 05:40 PM, said:

Add

P {
  font-weight: normal;
}

It should stop any cross-browser naughtiness.

It's not actually my site which is why I was wondering if it was something wrong locally at my end (i.e. corrupt fonts or something), but if it is just down to their bad coding, then I guess I'll just have to live with it!

[brightonmike]

You must have a font on your machine that the browser is loading instead of their font. This can happen when fonts have similar/same names.

You need to find the font on your machine and remove it.

It's not likely to be a problem their end - as I am unable to replicate it.

This post has been edited by brightonmike: 23 November 2011 - 12:46 PM

[wickywills]

brightonmike, on 23 November 2011 - 12:46 PM, said:

You must have a font on your machine that the browser is loading instead of their font. This can happen when fonts have similar/same names.

You need to find the font on your machine and remove it.

It's not likely to be a problem their end - as I am unable to replicate it.

I thought it may have been Helvetica (condensed), so I removed that - still no luck. The closest one to that font I have locally is "Impact" - which is a system font and can't be removed. Really odd!!

[brightonmike]

Have you tried on other machines? If this is only on your PC then you have an issue with your fonts.

[wickywills]

brightonmike, on 23 November 2011 - 04:18 PM, said:

Have you tried on other machines? If this is only on your PC then you have an issue with your fonts.

Yes, I have tried it on various other machines, both at home and at work. Most of the machines tested seem to have the issue, but in different browsers Can't seem to find any pattern for it!

Only seems to be on certain websites however, the majority of which seem to be wordpress blogs - god knows why!

Does the link above display correctly for you in the different browsers?

[brightonmike]

Yes, and on other machines.

[kensha]

IE9 is bad it messed up your font.

Uninstall IE9 to get back IE5 and your font is back in the right order also means for the other browser.

[wickywills]

kensha, on 24 November 2011 - 10:57 PM, said:

IE9 is bad it messed up your font.

Uninstall IE9 to get back IE5 and your font is back in the right order also means for the other browser.

IE5!? I'm assuming you mean IE8. Anyway, I have already tried reverting back to older versions of browsers, and still no luck

I think the problem lies within my Helvetica font I have installed. I tried deleting it, but I think it is still causing issues, so it could be in the registry? Not sure though...

FYI, I am also getting the same issue when I visit both "Twitter" and "Mailchimp". Most websites seem normal however..

[brightonmike]

Kensha, stop giving bad advice. Internet Explorer is nothing to do with it.

And IE5?! What planet are you on?

Wicky: I can assure you with 100% confidence the problem is with your machine. It's just not going to be a problem that all of these websites, including Twitter etc, suddenly, coincidentally, posses, yet nobody else sees except you.

You could try just removing all fonts except the default system fonts. Then re-install one by one until you find the problem font.

You should also be able to "hide" fonts, so they aren't used but stay installed.

You could also try system restore. If you can remember when the problem first occurred, you can restore your system to before that point - providing there's a restore point (which there should be).

[wickywills]

brightonmike, on 25 November 2011 - 09:14 AM, said:

Kensha, stop giving bad advice. Internet Explorer is nothing to do with it.

And IE5?! What planet are you on?

Wicky: I can assure you with 100% confidence the problem is with your machine. It's just not going to be a problem that all of these websites, including Twitter etc, suddenly, coincidentally, posses, yet nobody else sees except you.

You could try just removing all fonts except the default system fonts. Then re-install one by one until you find the problem font.

You should also be able to "hide" fonts, so they aren't used but stay installed.

You could also try system restore. If you can remember when the problem first occurred, you can restore your system to before that point - providing there's a restore point (which there should be).

Ok, I THINK i've cracked it . Looks like the problem was down to "Helvetica Neue" - not sure why though. I also installed about 200 windows updates which I had been postponing for months

Annoyingly, Helvetica Neue is a font we use all the time (and yes, I know it's overused!!), so I'll have to try and download it again and maybe use a font manager of some sort (like Suitcase on Mac).

anyway, thanks for the help, much appreciated

[brightonmike]

Your problem then is probably that the Helvetica Neue you had installed on your system has the same font these websites were using but was actually slightly different.

See if you can find an alternative, there should be plenty