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No solutions yet, Italicized font in IE8!

Oct 5, 2012 1:02AM PDT

A few days ago fonts in IE8 and Chrome became italicized, but only on one site: myfitnesspal.com. I am using Windows 7. I've talked to the admin on that site and they said it was more of a unique situation so I decided to take it into my own hands.

The past 2 hours I have browsed for solutions and tried all sorts of options, re-installing the browsers and replacing the Arial regular font (I tried to delete it and re-install, but it said it was protected). I've also been to Internet Options in IE to choose the webpage fonts and that still hasn't worked.

Also, in Firefox the font is bolded instead of italicized (on the same site), but not anywhere else. Perhaps it has something to do with CSS? Has anyone encountered this or have any suggestions?

FYI, I am on a work computer and funny that I work in IT, but can't fix my own sh*t!

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Re: fpnt
Oct 5, 2012 1:37AM PDT

Well, the page isn't in Arial, so anything you do with that font is totally inapplicable.

Using Firebug on their homepage quickly told me that they use the following font specification: "Lucida Sans", "Lucida Grande", sans-serif.

So my guess is that if you remove and reinstall all Lucida Sans fonts (that are 4 files: normal, bold, italic and italic bold) things will be fine. Just removing all Lucida Sans will give you the site in Lucida Grande, if you have that installed (I haven't).

Sorry, but using Firebug is a basic compentence for a web-developer. So, while you work in the IT, probably your specialisation is elsewhere. It's a wide area, IT.

Kees

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yay
Oct 5, 2012 2:32AM PDT

Thank your for the suggestion. It worked! I was assuming the font on their pages were Arial. I didn't think about looking at their CSS to see their actual font. Pretty sad since I'm a web designer! LOL

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No need to look in the CSS yourself.
Oct 5, 2012 3:25AM PDT

Firebug shows it (in the second tab, called 'Calculated' or something like that - I don't have the English version, so I don't know the exact term used).

It's a basic tool to find out about incompatibilities between different browsers (use the IE equivalent, developer tools, in IE). That's included in IE, while Firebug is an add-on.

Kees

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Nice Info
Oct 9, 2012 4:18PM PDT

Thanks for this info.