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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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Posted on Oct 4, 2018 12:05 PM

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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