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For a while now I have been faced with an unusual, yet visually interesting, font substitution issue with my web browsers.  It seems like every time a webpage requests any face from the Helvetica family, Safari et.al decides that the most suitable one would be the fractions.

a small fraction of the Coda Site

and how Panic intended it to look

I have tried a couple of things to fix this but have always focused on the browsers themselves, looking in vain for some way to tell them NOT TO USE THE FRACTIONS FONTFACE.  Eventually I gave up and, reasoning that I have needed to use the face only once in the p`st six months, I disabled it in FontBook.

demon be gone

I cant tell if this issue resulted in me installing some fonts in a bad way or if it is an error more people are likely to see, so far none of the other macs at work have suffered so I am hoping the risk is negligable enough for me to continue using Helvetica on any sites that need it.