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timatgetdim
timatgetdim

Reputation: 183

All browsers displaying italic text when not supposed to

I am having a problem with my browsers (Safari, Chrome, and FF) displaying text in italics when it's not supposed to be italicized. This is happening on multiple sites including Google sites (Google, YouTube) as well as sites I have built and others (godaddy email, ford.com, even stackoverflow). Surprisingly though, it is not happening with my time tracker site (freeagent.com).

I have no idea what's going on. I have not installed any new software recently nor any new fonts. I am running Mac OS X lion.

Upvotes: 6

Views: 17315

Answers (6)

mett rihal
mett rihal

Reputation: 1

if you have same problem with other browsers too, it may because of some errors in your fonts in windows. try to reinstall default windows font in your font folder (c:/windows/fonts). you can copy default font from another pc or download it from here : http://www.withsteps.com/404/how-i-restored-my-windows-7-default-fonts.html

Upvotes: 0

Tester101
Tester101

Reputation: 8172

Recently had this problem on my Windows 7 machine, while running Google Chrome Version 52.0.2743.116 m. None of the other fixes mentioned here worked for me.

Turns out that an installed application had reregistered some basic fonts, which lead to Chrome not being able to find the fonts. In my case it was NewspaperDirect's PressReader (which I don't recall ever installing), that modified the registry so some basic fonts pointed to .ttf files stored in PressReaders program files folder.

Fix

  1. Run regedit.exe (with admin privileges)
  2. Navigate to the registry key "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Fonts".
  3. Scroll through the list of fonts, and locate any that are similar to "C:\Program Files (x86)\NewpaperDirect\PressReader\publisher\Styles\Fonts[font name].ttf"
  4. Right click the value name and choose Modify....
  5. Remove the directory path, so that all that remains is the file name "[font name].ttf".
  6. Repeat 4 and 5 for all bad registry values.
  7. Restart Chrome.

NewspaperDirect registry font bug
Registry value before fix

Modifying registry value
Bad registry value

Modified registry value
Good registry value

Fixed registry value
Fixed registry value

Upvotes: 0

user3287714
user3287714

Reputation: 11

In chrome to solve this you have to do the following:

  • paste address bar the following and hit enter: chrome://flags#disable-direct-write
  • Under Disable DirectWrite Windows click "Enable" (this will disable DirectWrite in fact (background becomes white)
  • A button labeled "Relaunch Now" at the bottom of your screen will apear. Click that button and will relaunch Chrome with the new settings, and the text should appear normal after this.

Upvotes: 0

Lisa
Lisa

Reputation: 11

I've been having this problem... text bold and italic in all browsers, websites, twitter, even emails... what I did to fix it was make sure that Arial was turned on permanently in my Suitcase... it should have been anyway as a system font I guess but who cares because it fixed it!

Upvotes: 1

David
David

Reputation: 11

I had the same problem where all the email titles were bold in my GoDaddy Email, on several browsers and only at one computer. It all happened after installing Suitcase Fusion and copying over a font library to that specific computer. I followed Lisa's suggestion and permanently turned on another version of Arial (TrueType, version 3.05) and it did the trick: all the email titles are back to normal (bold if unread, regular if read).

Upvotes: 1

Tianzhen Lin
Tianzhen Lin

Reputation: 2614

Check your Safari Preference (Command-,), and navigate to Appearance tab, double check and make sure that the Standard font is non-italic font. Mine is Times 16. Hope this helps.

Upvotes: 0

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