American Typewriter Condensed = default font?

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American Typewriter Condensed = default font?

Sometime in the last few weeks something strange has happened to my operating system: the default font in some dialog boxes (not all) and on many web pages as displayed by Safari (v4.0.4) and/or Camino (2.0.1) is American Typewriter Condensed. Conversely, the same web pages as displayed by Opera (v10.10) show the same text displayed with Arial or Helvetica (can't tell which).

Among other problems, the American Typewriter Condensed (ATC) font doesn't display many HTML entities correctly, which makes viewing some pages difficult.

I have removed the ATC dfont from the system with Linotype FontExplorer X, rebooted the machine and the problem persists.

I'd appreciate any clues as to how to solve this problem.

Thanks.

\dmc

G4 Gigabit Ethernet, Mac OS X (10.4.11)

Posted on Feb 4, 2010 12:42 PM

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Answer 1

BDAqua

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Feb 4, 2010 1:52 PM in response to David Cole2

Hi David, I think you have some new fonts interfering with the system font numbers, they usually have a different name but conflicting number underneath.

Did you look for duplicates in Font Book yet?

You may have to view samples of each until you find it.

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David Cole2 Author

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Feb 4, 2010 3:48 PM in response to BDAqua

Font Book -- doh!

I'm so used to dealing with just Linotype FontExplorer X that I completely forgot about Font Book (hanging head in shame).

I found a number of damaged fonts in the FontExplorer directory using FontBook and threw them away; further, there was another version of American Typerwriter squirreled away in there that FontExplorer didn't seem to know about (but then again, I guess it did) and once I put it in the Trash (and, after rebooting, finally got the Trash to empty, as the system warned me that other American Typerwriter was being used) and rebooted once again, I finally have gotten rid of the problem.

Thanks for uttering the phrase "Font Book."

\dmc

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BDAqua

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Feb 4, 2010 4:09 PM in response to David Cole2

Good News David, thanks for the report. 🙂

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