Weird Wingdings-type fonts in Chrome

By profile, do you mean user account?

If so, then it's very likely a third party font you installed is conflicting with the font that's supposed to be shown.

Edit: Found it. Whoever created this disaster of a font started with Times New Roman and modified it, creating the font Locust. Not only did they illegally modify a copyrighted font, they didn't fix all of the internal names.

Note the family name. The OS and apps can't know what to do with the mismatch of internal names and the conflict it creates with the real Times New Roman fonts.

Delete locust.ttf from your computer and the issue should resolve itself.

That's yet another font. The first one you showed is most definitely Locust Regular. The second I can't locate a match for, and none of those glyphs are in Locust.

In your original image, note how the bold and italic text display in Times New Roman:

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But the rest is in Locust, which is interfering with Times New Roman Regular.

The version of Locust you have must be on your Mac somewhere, but not necessarily by that file name. However, you should be able to locate it in Font Book (or whatever font manager you're using) by clicking on each active font until you see a preview for it. And also for the other one.

This should work to at least temporarily clear things.

1. Open your font manager and disable all third party fonts.
2. Close all running apps.
3. Open Terminal and run this command:

atsutil databases -removeUser

Immediately restart the Mac. Then check to see if the issue has been resolved.

The panel I showed earlier is from FontLab 8, which is a full featured font editor. There's the free, open-source FontForge if you want to play around with a font's inner workings. Or just view them, as I did for this one.

The .lastresort files appear when an expected font cannot be found, and the app itself does not have a fall-back font selected. Then you usually see a page full of this glyph:

The cache cleaning Terminal command only removes the font cache maintained by the OS for the active user account. It does nothing to clear caches created by third party apps.

Yes, you can revert the Mac to only fonts installed by the OS. Once again, shut down all apps except for Font Book. In that app, open from the top left of the screen, Font Book > Settings. Click on the Advanced tab, then click Reset Fonts.

This will move all third party fonts out of the two main Fonts folders:

/Library/Fonts

~/Library/Fonts

The tilde ~ means the active user account Library folder. What happens is two new folders will be created. When you check each Library folder, you'll now see this:

/Library/Fonts

/Library/Fonts/Fonts (Removed)

~/Library/Fonts

~/Library/Fonts/Fonts (Removed)

Any third party fonts that were in either of the respective adjacent Fonts folders will now be in the Removed folders.

Close Font Book, clear the font caches again and restart the Mac. If that still doesn't do it, then start up in Safe Mode. With an M1 or M2 Mac, you do this by first shutting the Mac down. Then press and hold the power button until you see the boot manager. Here you'll see any drive with a bootable OS on it. In your case, I'm suspecting there will be only the main, internal drive. Hold down the Shift key. The text under the drive listed should indicated it will start up in Safe Mode. Keep holding the Shift key and double click the drive icon.

Once you've completed booting into Safe Mode, choose to restart the Mac. Among other things Safe Mode does, it dumps all cache files from the user account you started up to.

And if that still doesn't fix things, then Chrome may be holding its own cached outside of the area it's supposed to. But, according to a quick search, it does keep its cache data in the correct user cached folder.

The full Inter set (at least at Font Squirrel) is 19 faces. That probably explains why you see so many.

I'm wondering if I should try removing Inter all together and then reinstalling the letter version of it?

I would.

Not being able to delete a third party font is also a bug I've run across in Font Book under Ventura. The app got a total rewrite and now has bugs that didn't exist before. But then, if the font is in the root Library's Fonts folder rather than in your user account, that would be why you can't delete it from within Font Book. The main Library requires you to enter your admin password to delete items from that base folder.

In Font Book, right click on the Inter font it won't remove and choose, Show in Finder. The folder where the font is located will open on the desktop and the file will be highlighted. Manually place it in the trash.

After you've removed all of the Inter fonts you can find, restart the Mac. Then install a fresh, correct set. Like from the link for Font Squirrel. Or from Google, which doesn't include as many styles.

Ah, you fixed part of the problem while I was typing. I found Arachnid, and while it doesn't contain the glyphs in your second set of images, it is another botched pieced of junk that started with a copy of Times New Roman they and modified it. Except, unlike Locust, they didn't even remove the real creator's name.

Anywho, also delete Arachnid. It will do nothing but cause trouble.

The two Inter fonts conflict with each other. They have the same family name, and Style group name. That's enough to confuse the OS and apps as to which is which. Of the two below, the first is the Inter text font as you see it on the Golden Retriever site, and the other is the icon glyph font.

After that, it then depends on which of the two active fonts a given app goes with first. Sometimes they won't use either. Quark XPress is one app that won't show you any fonts that conflict. That tells you right away there's a conflict when you don't see an expected font in its lists.

It sounds like you have two entirely different fonts calling themselves Inter. One is correct, and the other is the font of icon glyphs.

I love that little extension. While I absolutely refuse to use Chrome (or any other app made by Google), they do have that extension for Firefox. Sweet!

The 400 (or other values) signifies the font weight. You can see that in my screen shots above for the internal names of Locus and Arachnid.

The font names after Inter is common web practice. It tells the browser; if you can't find Inter, use Helvetica. If you can't find Helvetica, use Roboto. And keep going like that down the list.

If this only happens in Chrome, ask their support, as it may be a bug in their app which they have to fix.

Since I can view these fonts correctly in one version of the browser, is there a way to identify which fonts are supposed to be showing so I can check them for hidden fonts in the fontbook?

Yes, if you don't mind digging through HTML source code. Go to the page you want to check. In Safari, open its Settings, then under the Advanced tab, turn on the bottom check box for Show Develop menu in menu bar.

Now you can go to the top menu bar and choose Develop > Show Page Source.

The trick now is to find a font reference, which may not be easy. Much longer ago, you called out the font you wanted to use right next to the text you see in the browser. Most of the time that info is now within a style sheet (.css).