MacOS – How to fix broken font-rendering in Safari

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On some sites (especially this one) I cannot read certain parts, there are only A's displayed.

How can I fix this?

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You are probably using a third-party font management utility like Extensis Suitcase Fusion or Linotype FontExplorer. These have been widely reported to cause problems with Safari 5.1 in Snow Leopard and Lion.

Disable your font management utility, then clean the font cache again. Contact the company that makes the font management utility and see if they have a new update to address the problems with Safari 5.1.

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How to disable Top Sites in Safari on macOS Lion

I found this somwhere else which may solve your problem:

Quit Safari
Open Terminal (Applications/Utilities) & paste:
```
defaults write com.apple.Safari DebugSnapshotsUpdatePolicy -int 2
```
then hit return & quit Terminal.

To reactivate:

defaults delete com.apple.Safari DebugSnapshotsUpdatePolicy

MacOS – How to unstyle incorrect (bold and italic) font display in Safari and Firefox

When I view this page in Firefox (12.5 beta) I am seeing this text as you probably intended it - no bold and/or italic. Since you reported that the problem is occurring in both Safari and Firefox, it likely is not user preferences in both browsers, which can be set to use user-defined fonts instead of those dictated by CSS or HTML instructions. Nevertheless, I'd check each browser's display preferences first to see if this isn't the case.

Otherwise, this may be a problem with your fonts cache, so clearing it may solve your problem. You can easily do this by opening up Terminal.app and entering the following command (this clears the font cache for the current user account; if you have other accounts, they won't be affected):

atsutil databases -removeUser

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