Strange fonts in IE9 on TechSpot.com

yukka

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I do not have this problem with Firefox 10 but the fonts on Techspot.com are very strange in ie9 for me. I have seen it on another ie9 in my organisation and they don't have the same problem so its maybe just me. And maybe this needs to be moved into a different forum because its not specific to this site but there are clever people here and they might have an idea how I can fix it. Note the crosses under the first letter of the final word in each title and the annoying little tails the little "a"s all have. Any ideas guys?
 

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Can you please review the image you uploaded.
There is allot more wrong than just the crossings of a few letters?
 
Tell me about it. Here is a dual monitor pic of chrome on the left and ie9 on the right.
 

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Here's an idea... check if you have the Helvetica font installed and if it's working properly. If not, delete it so the site will default back to Arial which is more Windows-native.

On TechSpot we are currently picking our default font in this order: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif.
 
Ok it was Helvetica. I uninstalled all the variants from my windows/fonts folder but it didn't help. I reinstalled it again (it said it was already installed and asked if I wanted to replace it which was strange) but after trying a couple of variants its back to looking normal again.

Thanks Julio, it was driving me nuts!
 
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