Some Weird Font Issues On Google Chrome

[jim360]

Anyone else noticing strange font choices on websites recently? One or two pages are suddenly displaying in fonts I've never seen the websites in before. Slightly confused... one page is suddenly in Gill Sans, which is up there for bizarre and frankly off-putting fonts. I can fix the issue temporarily by tweaking the source code but that doesn't last through a refresh of course.

Was there a recent update to Chrome/ something else? Anyone experiencing similar issues? Incidentally, the webpages display "correctly" in Firefox but seems like the source code is the same, which suggests a chrome issue of some sort.

[Jomlett]

This week version 37 came available. Have you updated Chrome?

[jim360]

I just did, but there issue hasn't gone away with the update. Thanks, though.

[janbee]

Only on AB do I have this problem. Very strange.

[jim360]

Intriguingly I've been able to fix the problem by doing the exact opposite of what was suggested online. How odd. Oh well.

[jim360]

Or, as the case may be, not, but I have at least tracked down the source of the problem. Newest update has apparently included the experimental "DirectWrite". Which, it seems, works in some places but doesn't in others. Turning OFF Directwrite leads to some bizarre font choices, but at least the text is legible (although Gill Sans is a seriously weird font). Turning ON Directwrite restores the fonts to what they "should be", but seemed to have trouble with special characters e.g. italics. Until an update is released it seems like I'm stuck with one of these problems.