All pages in Google Chrome are rendered with a very thin, bad looking serif font

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In every later release of Google Chrome (including the just released version 11), all pages are rendered with a very thin, jaggy serif font.

This is how it looks in Chrome 11:

google mail in chrome 11

And here is Safari 5.0.5:

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The picture might be too small to really show how bad the serif font is, but on-screen it's horrible.

There's no difference if I try to edit the font settings in Chrome. It's always the same font. I've also — of course — tried to remove and re-install Chrome, multiple times. Have tried to remove everything Chrome-related from $HOME/Library (Application Support, Caches etc). No change in behavior.

Here is an example of my font settings, but as I said, the font is always the same — on all pages — regardless of what I set in the font settings. I can set it to Helvetica and it's still a jaggy, horrible, small serif:

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So, what do I do? Suggestions?

Best Answer

Before you go blocking fonts and so on, first check this page: http://www.google.com/webfonts

How you get rendered the fonts? On my chrome - without any problems, the chrome CAN render different fonts.

You can try these commands from the Terminal.app

sudo atsutil databases -remove
sudo atsutil server -shutdown
sudo atsutil server -ping

the above will remove your font cache. Work only in snow leopard!

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