Fix Safari Font Issues in Leopard
This has happened to me on two separate occasions when upgrading from Tiger to Leopard, and I haven't been able to find anything on Google about it.
In Safari (that's the only place I really saw it affected), the default font changed from Helvetica to Helvetica Neue Condensed Bold. It looks something like this:
Now I use Safari for my RSS subscriptions, and this is a very annoying font to use when quickly browsing through headlines, especially compared to the default and easy to read Helvetica:
In OS X, I'm pretty sure you used to be able to select between a few system fonts in the Finder or in System Preferences. Well, now you can't. I figured that was the problem, so I went searching. I finally found an article about disabling/removing system fonts in Leopard. So I removed HelveticaNeue.dfont in the manner prescribed in the article, then refreshed Safari. Didn't work. So I put the font back. I had another program flipping out on me anyway so I decided to restart again.
By that time, I had already restarted several times, upgraded Safari, deleted preference files and everything else I could think of to give Safari a kick in the rear. Nothing had worked. But for some reason, maybe after removing and putting back the font file, this time the restart worked.
All of that to say, I have no idea what the solution is, but if this should happen to you, just jiggle the font files around a little, and keep restarting.
In Safari (that's the only place I really saw it affected), the default font changed from Helvetica to Helvetica Neue Condensed Bold. It looks something like this:
Now I use Safari for my RSS subscriptions, and this is a very annoying font to use when quickly browsing through headlines, especially compared to the default and easy to read Helvetica:
In OS X, I'm pretty sure you used to be able to select between a few system fonts in the Finder or in System Preferences. Well, now you can't. I figured that was the problem, so I went searching. I finally found an article about disabling/removing system fonts in Leopard. So I removed HelveticaNeue.dfont in the manner prescribed in the article, then refreshed Safari. Didn't work. So I put the font back. I had another program flipping out on me anyway so I decided to restart again.
By that time, I had already restarted several times, upgraded Safari, deleted preference files and everything else I could think of to give Safari a kick in the rear. Nothing had worked. But for some reason, maybe after removing and putting back the font file, this time the restart worked.
All of that to say, I have no idea what the solution is, but if this should happen to you, just jiggle the font files around a little, and keep restarting.
