How to fix broken text on some websites?

cbiweb · Oct 10, 2022

I finally have to ask about this, after quite a while putting up with it. What's causing the text to look this in many websites?

Berton · Oct 10, 2022

A question to be asked, Which of your browsers [in My Computer] does this happen with? Does it happen with installed programs such a Notepad, WordPad, office-type programs?

cbiweb · Oct 10, 2022

Berton said:
A question to be asked, Which of your browsers [in My Computer] does this happen with? Does it happen with installed programs such a Notepad, WordPad, office-type programs?

Edge, Firefox and Vivaldi. Only in those browsers and in no other programs like you mentioned.

Berton · Oct 10, 2022

I'd uninstall all three, first saving your Bookmarks/Favorites and any log-ins, then reinstall them.

cbiweb · Oct 10, 2022

Berton said:
I'd uninstall all three, first saving your Bookmarks/Favorites and any log-ins, then reinstall them.

That's a bit of work. I'll leave it as a last result. Can Edge be uninstalled??

Does it happen for you on Win11?

Ghot · Oct 10, 2022

cbiweb said:
That's a bit of work. I'll leave it as a last result. Can Edge be uninstalled??

Does it happen for you on Win11?

Yeah, you can uninstall EDGE. It will reinstall itself.

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cbiweb · Oct 10, 2022

This only happens on *some* websites, while the majority are fine, so I'm not sure how that's caused by the browser(s).

The 'broken' sites are fine on Windows 10. Is there a Win11 setting that clears up certain fonts?

Berton · Oct 10, 2022

There was a Clear Type in Win10, try that in the Search box.

cbiweb · Oct 10, 2022

Berton said:
There was a Clear Type in Win10, try that in the Search box.

Yep, it's enabled and I went through the calibrating process. No change.

cbiweb · Oct 11, 2022

This thread was moved to the "Browsers and Mail" forum, but I'm not convinced it's a browser issue.
If that was the case, then every website would have broken text, right?
Also, it occurs in every browser, and only on Windows 11. Are all browsers broken on 11?
It seems there is something else going on.

cbiweb · Oct 20, 2022

Hard to believe that this isn't solvable.

atinfo · Oct 21, 2022

That's not about Browser! I had this problem too. The font which is used on the website is problem! If you like you can share the link (website that has this problem). If you don't like to share the link, then press F12 (in Edge), at the Elemnts tab, press Ctrl+F and type "Font", then see what fonts are there. Share the font name here. As I realized some of websites uses some fonts, that developer created (the website) in macOS and didn't test that on the Windows! Probably they appears good enough in Safari! You can also select part of the sentence on the page, right click on it and select "Inspect" to directly see the font name in the "Styles" tab.

I have seen 2-3 websites which had this problem (since one year ago). You can change the font name to "Segoe UI" (or any font you like, but the font has to be installed on your PC) in the "Styles" tab. The font will change to "Segoe", change is real-time (don't refresh the page).

x BlueRobot · Oct 21, 2022

As @atinfo has said, it seems like a unsupported font issue, could you please provide examples of websites with the problem? They should have added several font families for this reason.