Why do all my browsers default to the "Impact" font?
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Mar 15, 20264973 viewsConfidence Score0%
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I've been struggling with a font issue which I hope you can help resolve. A few weeks ago I started seeing "Impact" as the default font on lots of webpages, rendering much of the content illegible. I think this issue began after I installed other fonts, but I'm not sure. The issue occurs on Chrome,…
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Do you have Helvetica Extra Compressed installed on your machine? It seems as though Helvetica Extra Compress was taking over as the system default for sans-serif, instead of Arial. Once I removed the font from my system fonts, everything went back …
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