Helvetica Fractions
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.
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Rondo
Had the same problem last year, took me ages to figure out a workaround, found some really useful information on fontgeek, http://fontgeek.net/
Might be a bit outdated now but still good to know
Jul 21st, 2008
Slj
Old issue
Helvetica Fractions is a known source of many font issues, even says so on the apple site
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=384206
Jul 22nd, 2008
DofsNougs
Hello.
The natural photo of the new arrival, taken by Emma Tallulah’s dad,
Bye.
Oct 12th, 2008
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