strange type font

Steven, Welcome to Apple Discussions !

Look for Helvetica Fractions or Times Phonetic, via your Font Book application.
If you have either of these, that will cause problems like this.
Let us know how you're doing, OK?

Hello -

I've had this a few times in a managed user environment. I don't have the fonts listed above and neither do the users who have seen this. For us it seems to only affect Google's main page. At one point I was running a Network Libary from our Xserve with a Fonts folder and the Google page would use a font from there. This Network Library has been abandonded now but the problem crops up occaisionally.

Hi Bee,
Just wanted to thank you for your post - I've been struggling with this same problem for weeks and found no answers. Deleted Times Phonetic and it is all cleared up.
Thanks again,
Susan S.

Susan, you're very welcome.
So glad it helped you 🙂

hi. i am having a similar issue, but so far it only happens on: http://www.apple.com/startpage/

the letters seem to be loading in backwards...almost as if i need to hold up a mirror to the screen to read it. i tried looking for the two fonts mentioned above, but could not find either on my system. also, only happens in safari and not on the same webpage when i am using internet explorer.

any other insight?

cdlum -- backwards-like text is almost certainly Times Phonetic or a very similar font. Look for it again. Send me a screen shot if you want confirmation. Click on my name for the address.

checked all around for the Times Phonetic font again. still to no avail. BUT... i did find a font called Times Mirror. disabled the font, and problem solved!!! thanks for the advice.

Thanks for the useful info! First time I have heard of that font.