Safari 12 fonts: Verdana not rendering

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user11921 Author

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Safari 12 fonts: Verdana not rendering

Since upgrading to macOS Mojave and updating to Safari 12.0 I've noticed a weird issue of Verdana not rendering in the browser. It's definitely installed on the system and renders in Firefox and Chrome. You can test it out by going to reddit (make sure it's not their new design) and looking at the post titles - my Safari is defaulting to Arial in the font stack. I've tried rebooting but that didn't fix it.

Is anyone else experiencing this?

iMac, macOS Mojave (10.14), Safari 12

Posted on Oct 3, 2018 11:09 AM

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user11921 Author

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Oct 4, 2018 12:05 PM in response to user11921

Solution:

After looking at Verdana in Font Book I noticed that two versions were installed. One inside the default /Library/Fonts folder which had been disabled and one inside /Library/Fonts/Microsoft. Font Book "resolved" these duplicates (I assume when Mojave was installed) by disabling the default /Library/Fonts file.

Once I manually re-enabled the files (Right-click on "off" font > Enable) they were appearing again in Safari. This also applies to any other font in /Library/Fonts/Microsoft, which I believe is needed for Office 2016 for Mac.

I'm still unsure as to why Chrome and Firefox (and other software such as Sketch) we're able to use the file, either they were using the file in /Library/Fonts/Microsoft or they simply ignore the on/off status.

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Eric Root

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Oct 3, 2018 12:30 PM in response to user11921

Try setting up another admin user account to see if the same problem continues. Please post back on whether or not this worked. Also try the Safe Mode. Please post back on whether or not this worked.

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Eric Root

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Nov 20, 2018 5:27 PM in response to gent99

Apple doesn’t routinely monitor the discussions. These are mostly user to user discussions.

If you want to, you can send Apple feedback. They won't answer, but at least will know there is a problem or a suggestion for change. If enough people send feedback, it may get the problem/suggested change solved sooner.

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fernst

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Oct 3, 2018 5:20 PM in response to user11921

I am experiencing the same problem. I have restarted in safe mode after upgrading to Mojave. Firefox and Chrome properly display Verdana, Safari does not.

Possibly related problem: I noted that in FontBook I cannot deactivate some fonts in /Library/Fonts that should not be required by the system.

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user11921 Author

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Oct 4, 2018 12:04 PM in response to aekiameh

I didn't want to remove my non-standard fonts so didn't try this but thank you for making me have another look in Font Book! My problem was that I had a duplicated file for this font under /Library/Fonts/Microsoft and Font Book had disabled the default (/Library/Fonts) file, which Safari did not like.

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