Having font issues...


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I opened Font Book and saw that some of my fonts had duplicate entries. Calibri, for example, had two Bold versions installed. So I deleted all the duplicate entries. Now my Mac OS X installation is weird. It's like those fonts were deleted entirely. Everything is displayed in some generic font and everything is in bold. But I only deleted the duplicates, not the font themselves. I've run OnyX and have repaired disk permissions and cleared the font cache, and I'm still getting this problem.

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I noticed I had a lot of duplicate fonts after trying out the Office 2011 beta (because, for some reason, Microsoft thinks I need two versions of Arial). However, it shouldn't have even touched Lucida Grande (the font OS X uses). Does Font Book still show Lucida Grande?

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Also, is it everything (like the menu bar, Finder, etc.), or just certain websites (like ones that use Verdana or Arial)?

It might just be that certain fonts are disabled.

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I didn't delete any actual fonts from my system, only the duplicates. Lucida Grande is still on the system, as is everything else. The issue only seems to appear with Safari's rendering of webpages. I had it set to render sites in 16 pt Calibri font. This is still the case, but now everything is bold and appears to be Microsoft Sans Serif or something.

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Check Font Book to see if Arial (and other fonts) somehow got disabled. I just experienced the same problem because I deleted the Microsoft (duplicate) fonts from my system after previously disabling them and found it actually disabled OS X's versions and left Microsoft's versions active. I went into Font Book, did a Select All on all the fonts, and pressed this (post-17580-12718769707536.png) button below the Font column.

FYI: if that button has a check mark in it, don't press it. That means you don't have any disabled fonts and I don't know what the problem is. :p

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Check Font Book to see if Arial (and other fonts) somehow got disabled. I just experienced the same problem because I deleted the Microsoft (duplicate) fonts from my system after previously disabling them and found it actually disabled OS X's versions and left Microsoft's versions active. I went into Font Book, did a Select All on all the fonts, and pressed this (post-17580-12718769707536.png) button below the Font column.

FYI: if that button has a check mark in it, don't press it. That means you don't have any disabled fonts and I don't know what the problem is. :p

Nope, everything is checked. Still have no clue why this would have happened. I guess all I can do other than a complete system reinstall is see if I can get the deleted fonts back from Time Machine.

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