Deleted a Font, Now Things Look Weird

[Robin]

I was fiddling around with the Fonts folder in Windows 7 trying to install a font and seem to have deleted or changed something by accident.

Now Thread titles and other certain fonts on the site look like this...

And it didn't look like that before.

Can anyone tell me what that font is supposed to be and how I can restore whatever I deleted.

Thanks.

 

[ECGadget]

Helvetica may be the font... though I cannot be sure... that is what it shows up as on my PC. I'd give you the font file but I cannot even find it on my PC so I am not sure how you could have uninstalled it... Check to see if you uninstalled an Arial font by mistake? Should have "Arial", "Arial Rounded MT Bold" "Arial Unicode MS Regular"

 

[ULTRAVIOLENZZ]

Try this? http://superuser.com/questions/39847/how-to-reset-windows-7-to-its-default-font-for-the-whole-system

 

[Omnis]

The web doesn't use your system fonts.

 

[Robin]

Helvetica may be the font... though I cannot be sure... that is what it shows up as on my PC. I'd give you the font file but I cannot even find it on my PC so I am not sure how you could have uninstalled it... Check to see if you uninstalled an Arial font by mistake? Should have "Arial", "Arial Rounded MT Bold" "Arial Unicode MS Regular"

Funnily enough I was installing Helvetica Neue and I think it might have replaced the stock Helvetica which is why it looks funny. You can access the font folder by typing %windir%\fonts in run. I wouldn't know where to get the stock font file on the net.

Try this? http://superuser.com/questions/39847/how-to-reset-windows-7-to-its-default-font-for-the-whole-system

Yeah I did, didn't work, all the text on that web page also looks weird, probably the same font as the thread titles!

The web doesn't use your system fonts.

I'm pretty sure it does, it the past it certainly did but maybe not so many things now use system fonts with all the new web standards.

 

[ECGadget]

Funnily enough I was installing Helvetica Neue and I think it might have replaced the stock Helvetica which is why it looks funny. You can access the font folder by typing %windir%\fonts in run. I wouldn't know where to get the stock font file on the net.

I meant that Helvetica is not in the fonts folder, not that I cannot get to it xD
But since you were trying to install Helvetica Neue that is what you've probably done. Unfortunately, I have no idea where to get the original font from... and the web does use system fonts like you said, if it can find them. If not it looks at the next font in the family (defined in the CSS files). Luckily it hasn't reverted to the MS Unicode font!!

 

[Robin]

I meant that Helvetica is not in the fonts folder, not that I cannot get to it xD
But since you were trying to install Helvetica Neue that is what you've probably done. Unfortunately, I have no idea where to get the original font from... and the web does use system fonts like you said, if it can find them. If not it looks at the next font in the family (defined in the CSS files). Luckily it hasn't reverted to the MS Unicode font!!

Yeah, everything would then look like the 80's! I'm going to try to delete Helvetica Neue anyway and see if that helps.

 

[SlipZtrEm]

Funnily enough I was installing Helvetica Neue and I think it might have replaced the stock Helvetica which is why it looks funny. You can access the font folder by typing %windir%\fonts in run. I wouldn't know where to get the stock font file on the net.

Neue shouldn't have overwritten the old file though, and if it did, the picture you posted would show Neue.

I'm pretty sure it does, it the past it certainly did but maybe not so many things now use system fonts with all the new web standards.

People can call for any font they want on the forums actually, and it'll display fine... for them. But for anybody viewing it that doesn't have it installed on their device? Nope.

 

[Danny]

There'll never be a better chance to stick Papyrus as default.

 

[Robin]

I really don't understand what happened but I fixed it! just deleted Helvetica Neue.

There'll never be a better chance to stick Papyrus as default.

The internet would just look like one big novel then

 

[Grayfox]

Try sfc /scannow in the console.
If that doesnt fix your issue, do you know which font you lost?

I have about 40,000 that I have collected over the years(since Windows 98) so good chance I have a font to replace it.

 

[AstroSnail]

The web doesn't use your system fonts.

There's a post here in GTPlanet which has the font set to Garamond, but it had the font of every other post on my tablet.

 

[Jordan]

I really don't understand what happened but I fixed it! just deleted Helvetica Neue.

If that doesnt fix your issue, do you know which font you lost?

Just now saw this thread, but I can explain what happened. He didn't "lose" any font, it was just being displayed in place of Arial. Fonts on most webpages are specified using a fallback list; if the designer's first font choice is not installed on the computer, it will "fall back" to the second, third, etc.

That particular part of text in GTPlanet's template is styled using a fallback list of:

"Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif

Because Helvetica and Helvetica Neue are not installed by default on Windows, it will "fall back" to Arial. When Robin installed Helvetica Neue, it was being shown instead of Arial. Something probably wasn't quite right with that font file, though, or else it would have actually shown Helvetica Neue and would have looked a lot better.

 

[Robin]

Thanks for the explanation Jordan 👍

Yes I think the font file install messed up which is why it reverted. Luckily it's all good now and is displaying 'as gtplanet intended'

 

[eran0004]

Something probably wasn't quite right with that font file, though, or else it would have actually shown Helvetica Neue and would have looked a lot better.

@Robin.

I believe that is Helvetica Neue, although in a light weight rather than a bold. I suppose that if the font file only contained the light weight, that's what the browser would display?

 

[Jordan]

I'm not sure what the browser behavior would be in that case.

I think that's MS Sans-Serif in the screenshot, the low-level system font which lingers from the Windows 3.1 days.

 

[Grayfox]

Here are all of the Helvetica fonts that I have.

There are 330 of them ranging from normal, light, condensed, bold, italic and oblique.
List of all fonts in the folder

Helvetica Bold.ttf
Helvetica-Black-SemiBold.ttf
Helvetica-Black.otf
Helvetica-BlackOblique.otf
Helvetica-Bold.otf
Helvetica-BoldOblique.otf
Helvetica-Compressed.otf
Helvetica-Condensed-Black-Se.ttf
Helvetica-Condensed-Black.otf
Helvetica-Condensed-BlackObl.otf
Helvetica-Condensed-Bold.otf
Helvetica-Condensed-BoldObl.otf
Helvetica-Condensed-Light-Li.ttf
Helvetica-Condensed-Light-Light.ttf
Helvetica-Condensed-Light.otf
Helvetica-Condensed-LightObl.otf
Helvetica-Condensed-Oblique.otf
Helvetica-Condensed-Thin.ttf
Helvetica-Condensed.otf
Helvetica-Conth.ttf
Helvetica-ExtraCompressed.otf
Helvetica-Fraction.otf
Helvetica-FractionBold.otf
Helvetica-Light-Light-Italic.ttf
Helvetica-Light.otf
Helvetica-LightOblique.otf
Helvetica-Narrow-Bold.otf
Helvetica-Narrow-BoldItalic.otf
Helvetica-Narrow-BoldOblique.otf
Helvetica-Narrow-Italic.otf
Helvetica-Narrow-Oblique.otf
Helvetica-Narrow.otf
Helvetica-Normal.ttf
Helvetica-Oblique.otf
Helvetica-UltraCompressed.otf
Helvetica.otf
HelveticaBQ-Black.otf
HelveticaBQ-BlackItalic.otf
HelveticaBQ-Bold.otf
HelveticaBQ-BoldItalic.otf
HelveticaBQ-DemiBold.otf
HelveticaBQ-DemiBoldItalic.otf
HelveticaBQ-Italic.otf
HelveticaBQ-Light.otf
HelveticaBQ-LightItalic.otf
HelveticaBQ-Medium.otf
HelveticaBQ-MediumItalic.otf
HelveticaBQ-Roman.otf
HelveticaBQ-UltraLight.otf
HelveticaCE-Bold.otf
HelveticaCE-BoldOblique.otf
HelveticaCE-Cond.otf
HelveticaCE-CondBold.otf
HelveticaCE-CondBoldObl.otf
HelveticaCE-CondObl.otf
HelveticaCE-Narrow.otf
HelveticaCE-NarrowBold.otf
HelveticaCE-NarrowBoldOblique.otf
HelveticaCE-NarrowOblique.otf
HelveticaCE-Oblique.otf
HelveticaCE.otf
HelveticaConBQ-Bold.otf
HelveticaConBQ-ExtraLight.otf
HelveticaConBQ-ExtraLightItalic.otf
HelveticaConBQ-Light.otf
HelveticaConBQ-LightItalic.otf
HelveticaConBQ-Medium.otf
HelveticaCyr-Bold.otf
HelveticaCyr-BoldInclined.otf
HelveticaCyr-Inclined.otf
HelveticaCyr-Upright.otf
HelveticaCyrA-Bold.otf
HelveticaCyrA-BoldInclined.otf
HelveticaCyrA-Inclined.otf
HelveticaCyrA-Upright.otf
HelveticaDiagonalBQ.otf
HelveticaExt-No.ttf
HelveticaExtendedBQ-Bold.otf
HelveticaExtendedBQ-ExtraLight.otf
HelveticaExtendedBQ-Light.otf
HelveticaExtendedBQ-Medium.otf
HelveticaExtO 2.ttf
HelveticaExtO 3.ttf
HelveticaExtO 4.ttf
HelveticaFractionsBQ.otf
HelveticaInserat-Roman-SemiB.ttf
HelveticaInserat-Roman-SemiBold(1).ttf
HelveticaInserat-Roman.otf
HelveticaInseratBQ-Italic.otf
HelveticaInseratBQ-Regular.otf
HelveticaInseratCyr-Upright.otf
HelveticaInseratLTStd-Roman.otf
HelveticaLTStd-Blk.otf
HelveticaLTStd-BlkCond.otf
HelveticaLTStd-BlkCondObl.otf
HelveticaLTStd-BlkObl.otf
HelveticaLTStd-Bold.otf
HelveticaLTStd-BoldCond.otf
HelveticaLTStd-BoldCondObl.otf
HelveticaLTStd-BoldObl.otf
HelveticaLTStd-Comp.otf
HelveticaLTStd-Cond.otf
HelveticaLTStd-CondObl.otf
HelveticaLTStd-ExtraComp.otf
HelveticaLTStd-Fraction.otf
HelveticaLTStd-FractionBold.otf
HelveticaLTStd-Fractions.otf
HelveticaLTStd-FractionsBd.otf
HelveticaLTStd-Light.otf
HelveticaLTStd-LightCond.otf
HelveticaLTStd-LightCondObl.otf
HelveticaLTStd-LightObl.otf
HelveticaLTStd-Obl.otf
HelveticaLTStd-Roman.otf
HelveticaLTStd-UltraComp.otf
HelveticaNeue-Black.otf
HelveticaNeue-BlackCond.otf
HelveticaNeue-BlackCondObl.otf
HelveticaNeue-BlackExt.otf
HelveticaNeue-BlackExtObl.otf
HelveticaNeue-BlackItalic.otf
HelveticaNeue-Bold.otf
HelveticaNeue-BoldCond.otf
HelveticaNeue-BoldCondObl.otf
HelveticaNeue-BoldExt.otf
HelveticaNeue-BoldExtObl.otf
HelveticaNeue-BoldItalic.otf
HelveticaNeue-BoldOutline.otf
HelveticaNeue-Condensed.otf
HelveticaNeue-CondensedObl.otf
HelveticaNeue-ExtBlackCond.otf
HelveticaNeue-ExtBlackCondObl.otf
HelveticaNeue-Extended.otf
HelveticaNeue-ExtendedObl.otf
HelveticaNeue-Heavy.otf
HelveticaNeue-HeavyCond.otf
HelveticaNeue-HeavyCondObl.otf
HelveticaNeue-HeavyExt.otf
HelveticaNeue-HeavyExtObl.otf
HelveticaNeue-HeavyItalic.otf
HelveticaNeue-Italic.otf
HelveticaNeue-Light.otf
HelveticaNeue-LightCond.otf
HelveticaNeue-LightCondObl.otf
HelveticaNeue-LightExt.otf
HelveticaNeue-LightExtObl.otf
HelveticaNeue-LightItalic.otf
HelveticaNeue-Medium.otf
HelveticaNeue-MediumCond.otf
HelveticaNeue-MediumCondObl.otf
HelveticaNeue-MediumExt.otf
HelveticaNeue-MediumExtObl.otf
HelveticaNeue-MediumItalic.otf
HelveticaNeue-Roman.otf
HelveticaNeue-Thin.otf
HelveticaNeue-ThinCond.otf
HelveticaNeue-ThinCondObl.otf
HelveticaNeue-ThinExt.otf
HelveticaNeue-ThinExtObl.otf
HelveticaNeue-ThinItalic.otf
HelveticaNeue-UltraLigCond.otf
HelveticaNeue-UltraLigCondObl.otf
HelveticaNeue-UltraLigExt.otf
HelveticaNeue-UltraLigExtObl.otf
HelveticaNeue-UltraLight.otf
HelveticaNeue-UltraLightItal.otf
HelveticaNeueLT-BlackCond.otf
HelveticaNeueLT-BlackCondObl.otf
HelveticaNeueLT-BlackExt.otf
HelveticaNeueLT-BlackExtObl.otf
HelveticaNeueLT-BoldCond.otf
HelveticaNeueLT-BoldCondObl.otf
HelveticaNeueLT-BoldExt.otf
HelveticaNeueLT-BoldExtObl.otf
HelveticaNeueLT-BoldOutline.otf
HelveticaNeueLT-Condensed.otf
HelveticaNeueLT-CondensedObl.otf
HelveticaNeueLT-ExtBlackCond.otf
HelveticaNeueLT-ExtBlackCondObl.otf
HelveticaNeueLT-Extended.otf
HelveticaNeueLT-ExtendedObl.otf
HelveticaNeueLT-HeavyCond.otf
HelveticaNeueLT-HeavyCondObl.otf
HelveticaNeueLT-HeavyExt.otf
HelveticaNeueLT-HeavyExtObl.otf
HelveticaNeueLT-LightCond.otf
HelveticaNeueLT-LightCondObl.otf
HelveticaNeueLT-LightExt.otf
HelveticaNeueLT-LightExtObl.otf
HelveticaNeueLT-MediumCond.otf
HelveticaNeueLT-MediumCondObl.otf
HelveticaNeueLT-MediumExt.otf
HelveticaNeueLT-MediumExtObl.otf
HelveticaNeueLT-ThinCond.otf
HelveticaNeueLT-ThinCondObl.otf
HelveticaNeueLT-ThinExt.otf
HelveticaNeueLT-ThinExtObl.otf
HelveticaNeueLT-UltraLigCond.otf
HelveticaNeueLT-UltraLigCondObl.otf
HelveticaNeueLT-UltraLigExt.otf
HelveticaNeueLT-UltraLigExtObl.otf
HelveticaNeueLTCom-Bd.ttf
HelveticaNeueLTCom-BdCn.ttf
HelveticaNeueLTCom-BdCnO.ttf
HelveticaNeueLTCom-BdEx.ttf
HelveticaNeueLTCom-BdExO.ttf
HelveticaNeueLTCom-BdIt.ttf
HelveticaNeueLTCom-BdOu.ttf
HelveticaNeueLTCom-Blk.ttf
HelveticaNeueLTCom-BlkCn.ttf
HelveticaNeueLTCom-BlkCnO.ttf
HelveticaNeueLTCom-BlkEx.ttf
HelveticaNeueLTCom-BlkExO.ttf
HelveticaNeueLTCom-BlkIt.ttf
HelveticaNeueLTCom-Cn.ttf
HelveticaNeueLTCom-CnO.ttf
HelveticaNeueLTCom-Ex.ttf
HelveticaNeueLTCom-ExO.ttf
HelveticaNeueLTCom-Hv.ttf
HelveticaNeueLTCom-HvCn.ttf
HelveticaNeueLTCom-HvCnO.ttf
HelveticaNeueLTCom-HvEx.ttf
HelveticaNeueLTCom-HvExO.ttf
HelveticaNeueLTCom-HvIt.ttf
HelveticaNeueLTCom-It.ttf
HelveticaNeueLTCom-Lt.ttf
HelveticaNeueLTCom-LtCn.ttf
HelveticaNeueLTCom-LtCnO.ttf
HelveticaNeueLTCom-LtEx.ttf
HelveticaNeueLTCom-LtExO.ttf
HelveticaNeueLTCom-LtIt.ttf
HelveticaNeueLTCom-Md.ttf
HelveticaNeueLTCom-MdCn.ttf
HelveticaNeueLTCom-MdCnO.ttf
HelveticaNeueLTCom-MdEx.ttf
HelveticaNeueLTCom-MdExO.ttf
HelveticaNeueLTCom-MdIt.ttf
HelveticaNeueLTCom-Roman.ttf
HelveticaNeueLTCom-Th.ttf
HelveticaNeueLTCom-ThCn.ttf
HelveticaNeueLTCom-ThCnO.ttf
HelveticaNeueLTCom-ThEx.ttf
HelveticaNeueLTCom-ThExO.ttf
HelveticaNeueLTCom-ThIt.ttf
HelveticaNeueLTCom-UltLt.ttf
HelveticaNeueLTCom-UltLtCn.ttf
HelveticaNeueLTCom-UltLtCnO.ttf
HelveticaNeueLTCom-UltLtEx.ttf
HelveticaNeueLTCom-UltLtExO.ttf
HelveticaNeueLTCom-UltLtIt.ttf
HelveticaNeueLTCom-XBlkCn.ttf
HelveticaNeueLTCom-XBlkCnO.ttf
HelveticaNeueLTStd-Bd.otf
HelveticaNeueLTStd-BdCn.otf
HelveticaNeueLTStd-BdCnO.otf
HelveticaNeueLTStd-BdEx.otf
HelveticaNeueLTStd-BdExO.otf
HelveticaNeueLTStd-BdIt.otf
HelveticaNeueLTStd-BdOu.otf
HelveticaNeueLTStd-Blk.otf
HelveticaNeueLTStd-BlkCn.otf
HelveticaNeueLTStd-BlkCnO.otf
HelveticaNeueLTStd-BlkEx.otf
HelveticaNeueLTStd-BlkExO.otf
HelveticaNeueLTStd-BlkIt.otf
HelveticaNeueLTStd-Cn.otf
HelveticaNeueLTStd-CnO.otf
HelveticaNeueLTStd-Ex.otf
HelveticaNeueLTStd-ExO.otf
HelveticaNeueLTStd-Hv.otf
HelveticaNeueLTStd-HvCn.otf
HelveticaNeueLTStd-HvCnO.otf
HelveticaNeueLTStd-HvEx.otf
HelveticaNeueLTStd-HvExO.otf
HelveticaNeueLTStd-HvIt.otf
HelveticaNeueLTStd-It.otf
HelveticaNeueLTStd-Lt.otf
HelveticaNeueLTStd-LtCn.otf
HelveticaNeueLTStd-LtCnO.otf
HelveticaNeueLTStd-LtEx.otf
HelveticaNeueLTStd-LtExO.otf
HelveticaNeueLTStd-LtIt.otf
HelveticaNeueLTStd-Md.otf
HelveticaNeueLTStd-MdCn.otf
HelveticaNeueLTStd-MdCnO.otf
HelveticaNeueLTStd-MdEx.otf
HelveticaNeueLTStd-MdExO.otf
HelveticaNeueLTStd-MdIt.otf
HelveticaNeueLTStd-Roman.otf
HelveticaNeueLTStd-Th.otf
HelveticaNeueLTStd-ThCn.otf
HelveticaNeueLTStd-ThCnO.otf
HelveticaNeueLTStd-ThEx.otf
HelveticaNeueLTStd-ThExO.otf
HelveticaNeueLTStd-ThIt.otf
HelveticaNeueLTStd-UltLt.otf
HelveticaNeueLTStd-UltLtCn.otf
HelveticaNeueLTStd-UltLtCnO.otf
HelveticaNeueLTStd-UltLtEx.otf
HelveticaNeueLTStd-UltLtExO.otf
HelveticaNeueLTStd-UltLtIt.otf
HelveticaNeueLTStd-XBlkCn.otf
HelveticaNeueLTStd-XBlkCnO.otf
HelveticaObl-He.ttf
HelveticaObl-Li.ttf
HelveticaObl-Th.ttf
HelveticaRounded-Black.otf
HelveticaRounded-BlackObl.otf
HelveticaRounded-Bold.otf
HelveticaRounded-BoldCond.otf
HelveticaRounded-BoldCondObl.otf
HelveticaRounded-BoldObl.otf
HelveticaRoundedLT-Black.otf
HelveticaRoundedLT-BlackObl.otf
HelveticaRoundedLT-Bold.otf
HelveticaRoundedLT-BoldCond.otf
HelveticaRoundedLT-BoldCondObl.otf
HelveticaRoundedLT-BoldObl.otf
HelveticaRoundedLTStd-Bd.otf
HelveticaRoundedLTStd-BdCn.otf
HelveticaRoundedLTStd-BdCnO.otf
HelveticaRoundedLTStd-BdO.otf
HelveticaRoundedLTStd-Black.otf
HelveticaRoundedLTStd-BlkO.otf
HelveticaTwoBQ-Bold.otf
HelveticaTwoBQ-BoldItalic.otf
HelveticaTwoBQ-Italic.otf
HelveticaTwoBQ-Roman.otf
HelveticaWorld-Bold.ttf
HelveticaWorld-BoldItalic.ttf
HelveticaWorld-Italic.ttf
HelveticaWorld-Regular.ttf