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Weird Wingdings-type fonts in Chrome

Hi,

I have an M1 Max Macbook Pro. I use two Chrome profiles on my computer. On one profile, I don't have any trouble viewing all of the fonts. On the other profile, I keep encountering situations where in place of a normal font, I'm seeing like Wingdings or some other glyph-type font. This doesn't happen on every page and if there is a pattern for when it does occur, it's not really one that I am aware of. I don't recall this being an issue when I got the computer last year, but it's been happening since at least June of this year and I haven't been able to fix it.

I've tried clearing all of the cookies/saved data for the profile and resetting it. I've checked for an fixed duplicate fonts in my Fontbook. I've checked the font settings on both the profile where the fonts display correctly and the one where they display incorrectly and they are identical. My default and serif fonts are Times, and my sans serif font is Calibri. I also checked the profile that's having the issues on a Windows machine and all of the fonts displayed correctly, which leads me to think it must have something to do with my Mac.

Here are a couple of examples of where it occurs:

Does anyone have any idea what might be causing this?

Any thoughts are appreciated.

Thanks!

MacBook Pro 14″, macOS 13.5

Posted on Sep 24, 2023 1:13 PM

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Kurt Lang

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Posted on Sep 25, 2023 8:08 AM

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.

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Kurt Lang

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Sep 25, 2023 12:14 PM in response to Kurt Lang

Whoops! A correction. I wrote:

/Library/Fonts

/Library/Fonts/Fonts (Removed)

~/Library/Fonts

~/Library/Fonts/Fonts (Removed)

That would put the Fonts (Removed) folder within the Fonts folder. Wrong. It would look like this:

/Library/Fonts

/Library/Fonts (Removed)

~/Library/Fonts

~/Library/Fonts (Removed)

OPFC315 Author

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Sep 25, 2023 12:50 PM in response to OPFC315

Ok, so I just downloaded the Roman alphabet version of Inter from Google since I didn't appear to have that version of the font. I told the computer to replace the glyph version of the font with the letter version. Now I can see the Yoga studio page fine, but interestingly that one email is still showing as Inter glyphs. I'm so close to having this fixed....

OPFC315 Author

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Sep 25, 2023 1:24 PM in response to Kurt Lang

I agree about the two versions of the font and I have no idea why. It appears that I did replace the glyph version of the font with the version with letters in my Fontbook. And yet, that email and even an email I created by copy/pasting text from the Golden Retriever forum website are still showing as glyphs in the one profile. I don't have any problems reading the actual forum website, just emails with text from it. I'm wondering if I should try removing Inter all together and then reinstalling the letter version of it?

OPFC315 Author

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Sep 25, 2023 1:34 PM in response to OPFC315

Well, that didn't work. It only let me deactivate the font, not remove it. I checked the Yoga studio site and the email and both continued to display in the same way while the Inter fonts were deactivated. The email is showing glyphs and the Yoga site is now fine. I also no longer see the glyph font in my Fontbook when I look through my now 18 versions of Inter. Hmm....

OPFC315 Author

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Sep 25, 2023 1:43 PM in response to Kurt Lang

That's interesting. Is there a way I can ID and remove the glyph font? I don't have Quark, but I do have the Adobe Creative Cloud Suite if there's an app in there that might perform a similar function in terms of IDing a conflict.

OPFC315 Author

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Sep 25, 2023 4:20 PM in response to OPFC315

In the event that anyone else stumbles upon a similar issue. Sorry, you're just going to have to read the whole thread to find a solution. It seems like there were a couple of font issues going on and it took us all day to fix them both. Thank you, Kurt!

Kurt Lang

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Sep 26, 2023 6:38 AM in response to OPFC315

You're quite welcome. Glad you got it straightened out. :-)

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