Safari 12: Font Issue Post-Mojave Upgrade (not rendering Calibri)

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Safari 12: Font Issue Post-Mojave Upgrade (not rendering Calibri)

I just upgraded to Mojave a couple of days ago and everything is working perfectly. No hiccups or anything, but I did notice that, for some reason, the font family on this site ( http://romanoffsbite.tumblr.com/ ) has changed to what looks like Times New Roman. The site isn't rendering the font Calibri and it was using that font before I upgraded to Mojave.

I also upgraded to iOS 12 and the fonts are just fine in Safari on my iPhone and iPad.

This issue on the site is only happening in Safari. I tested it in FF and Chrome and they both show the correct Calibri font.

I have tried looking for any possible solutions, but all I have found regarding fonts and Mojave is the 'font smoothing' feature, which I did and the fonts on other sites do look better, but still nothing with regards to the font change on this specific site.

I have cleared the cache, logged out, restarted, etc. and still nothing seems to work...

If someone could provide any insight into this, I would really appreciate it! I am not a fan of serif fonts at all

Let me know if you need any additional information.

Thank You,

Nicole

Here are screenshots from Safari and Firefox to compare:

SAFARI (Times) [Version 12]

FIREFOX (Calibri - correct font for site)

iMac, macOS Mojave (10.14), Late 2012

Posted on Oct 5, 2018 11:25 AM

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Answer 1

Eric Root

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Oct 5, 2018 11:33 AM in response to Nicole Finneman

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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Oct 23, 2018 7:29 AM in response to laurinus

You are welcome.

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Answer 3

Oct 5, 2018 12:32 PM in response to Eric Root

Hey Eric,

Ok, the issue was still present when using a different user account AND when using Safe Mode... I did run Etrecheck and here's the report:

EtreCheck version: 5.0.3 (5A014)

Report generated: 2018-10-05 12:28:39

Download EtreCheck from https://etrecheck.com

Runtime: 5:20

Performance: Below Average

Problem: Other problem

Description:

Safari 12 on macOS Mojave is not rendering the Calibri font

Major Issues: None

Minor Issues:

These issues do not need immediate attention but they may indicate future problems.

Clean up- There are orphan files that could be removed.

Unsigned files- There are unsigned software files installed. They appear to be legitimate but should be reviewed.

Low performance- EtreCheck report took over 5 minutes to run. This is unusual.

32-bit Apps- This machine has 32-bits apps that may have problems in the future.

Hardware Information:

iMac (27-inch, Late 2012)

iMac Model: iMac13,2

1 2.9 GHz Intel Core i5 (i5-3470S) CPU: 4-core

8 GB RAM - Upgradeable

BANK 0/DIMM0 - 4 GB DDR3 1600 ok

BANK 1/DIMM0 - 4 GB DDR3 1600 ok

BANK 0/DIMM1 - Empty

BANK 1/DIMM1 - Empty

Video Information:

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M - VRAM: 512 MB

iMac 2560 x 1440

Drives:

disk0 - APPLE HDD ST1000DM003 1.00 TB (Mechanical - 7200 RPM)

Internal SATA 3 Gigabit Serial ATA

disk0s1 - EFI (MS-DOS FAT32) [EFI] 210 MB

disk0s2 [APFS Container] 1000.00 GB

disk1 [APFS Virtual drive] 1000.00 GB (Shared by 4 volumes)

disk1s1 - Macintosh HD (APFS) (Shared - 561.48 GB used)

disk1s2 - Preboot (APFS) [APFS Preboot] (Shared - 23 MB used)

disk1s3 - Recovery (APFS) [Recovery] (Shared - 509 MB used)

disk1s4 - VM (APFS) [APFS VM] (Shared - 4.29 GB used)

disk2 - Seagate BUP Slim BK 1.00 TB

External USB 5 Gbit/s USB

disk2s1 - EFI (MS-DOS FAT32) [EFI] 210 MB

disk2s2 - N***********p (Mac OS Extended (Case-sensitive, Journaled)) 999.86 GB (978.23 GB used)

Mounted Volumes:

disk1s1 - Macintosh HD 1000.00 GB (433.48 GB free)

APFS

Mount point: /

disk1s4 - VM [APFS VM] (Shared - 4.29 GB used)

APFS

Mount point: /private/var/vm

disk2s2 - N***********p 999.86 GB (21.63 GB free)

Mac OS Extended (Case-sensitive, Journaled)

Mount point: /Volumes/N***********p

Network:

Interface en0: Ethernet

Interface en1: Wi-Fi

802.11 a/b/g/n

Interface en4: Bluetooth PAN

Interface bridge0: Thunderbolt Bridge

iCloud Quota: 166.64 GB available

System Software:

macOS Mojave 10.14 (18A391)

Time since boot: Less than an hour

Configuration Files:

/etc/hosts - Count: 4

Security:

System	Status
Gatekeeper	Enabled
System Integrity Protection	Enabled

Unsigned Files:

Launchd: ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.zimbra.desktop.plist

Executable: ~/Library/Zimbra Desktop/bin/zdesktop start -w