Fonts looking bold on my browsers

Hi everyone,

I'm using a MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2014) with OS X Yosemite.

For some reason I don't understand on all my browsers (Safari, Firefox and Chrome) in some pages, included Wordpress Dashboard, Admin, etc,... fonts appear in bold.

I searched online and try everything, clearing duplicates on Font Book, clearing cache in all browsers after that.

This is just a screenshot of one of the pages I've been visiting.

Did any of this happen to you guys? I would appreciate some help here.

Thanks.

MacBook Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10.1)

Posted on Dec 23, 2014 6:19 AM

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efrmn

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Posted on Jun 1, 2017 2:20 PM

Hi! I know this question is old but I wanted to share my solution as well:

My problem stemmed from the fact that I had just downloaded a Photoshop file which had some fonts I did not use, prompting Typekit to ask whether it could resolve the missing fonts. I said OK, which is where we run into the problem; the font I tried to resolve was OpenSans which is I believe what Wordpress uses as well. It started to drive me pretty crazy, so I just turned 'Resolve missing fonts' on Typekit off (here's a link on how to do that). I'm sure there's a way you can turn off the Typekit resolving of OpenSans specifically, but it wasn't necessary for me. Hope this helps.

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Jul 5, 2015 11:55 AM in response to Roy Abbink

I can also confirm this.

If you are using Adobe TypeKit and sync Open Sans this will cause fonts to look bold on some websites.

If recently had issues with this font and after I read Roy Abbink post I checked my Typekit and sure enough it was synced. Removing it from Synced Fonts restored proper font usage on my Mac.

Sep 18, 2015 5:51 AM in response to oscarabizandacreative

I had this problem after upgrading to Yosimite. My Arial Regular was disabled in Font Book. I enabled it and all is good!!!!

Oct 5, 2015 7:35 AM in response to Eiuro

I did the opposite: I downloaded Open Sans from Google (I didn't have it installed at all) and installed it to the Font Book. Problem solved! Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.

Tux89

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Mar 14, 2016 8:39 AM in response to Eiuro

Yeah, just removed Open Sans from my Typekit on CC application. Everything is fine now. Thanks.

Jun 1, 2016 3:13 PM in response to Tux89

Remove Open Sans From Typekit, this the best solution, if you are designer or have adobe cc installed in your mac, is probably that you have this issue, Thanks Bro.

Jun 23, 2016 4:39 PM in response to oscarabizandacreative

Hello everyone,

I had the same issue and discovered that it was an issue the Open Sans Bold font in the Adobe Type Kit through the CC Desktop app. I deactivated it and the problem was gone.

lumsdend

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Nov 8, 2016 1:13 PM in response to oscarabizandacreative

This helped

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Fonts looking bold on my browsers