Can you identify this font?

[blueprint1983]

It's the main text of the article, that looks terrible->

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/917980/Documents/Screen Shot 2011-11-01 at 6.28.50 PM.png

I'm trying to find the culprit font that's screwing up Safari.

 

[chuckles:)]

Never seen it, but it should be called "Worse Than Comic Sans".

 

[blueprint1983]

it's driving me nuts, cnn, engaged and all blog sites cause safari to use that hideous font.

it's been like this for a few years and I'm considering removing all my fonts except the factory fonts from my machine.

 

[babyt]

Never seen it, but it should be called "Worse Than Comic Sans".

i would even venture to say "Worse the Papyrus over-usage"

 

[Legion93]

Times New Roman. Definitely. Without a doubt.

 

[blueprint1983]

Times New Roman. Definitely. Without a doubt.

at this point, i don't know if you're being serious, i've gone through 1,800 fonts trying to figure out which one resembles a special version of a popular font.

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how can i remove all fonts except system fonts?

 

[btbrossard]

it's been like this for a few years and I'm considering removing all my fonts except the factory fonts from my machine.

That's a good call.

Remove everything but the needed system fonts and then add the ones back that you want. Font management software would allow easy enabling/disabling of fonts if you want.

Do you know what the minimum system fonts for your OS version are?

 

[bbell2000]

According to WhatTheFont, it's possibly Espesor Olas Filled or Calligraphica.

If neither of those are right, maybe one of these tools will help: http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2008/12/7-free-tools-to-identify-a-font/

 

[appleguy123]

It looks like the 2nd grade papers I grade daily. lol

 

[anotonin]

It's the main text of the article, that looks terrible->

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/917980/Documents/Screen Shot 2011-11-01 at 6.28.50 PM.png

I'm trying to find the culprit font that's screwing up Safari.

It looks like a script font. A handwriting script font like Bradley Handwriting.

 

[blueprint1983]

Just to give everyone who has this problem a somewhat viable solution->

I ended up disabling ALL my fonts in Font Book except the system fonts. I might have been a bit more investigative if I was still doing design work but I'm not.. Best of all, I didn't go to extremes and delete all my non-native osx fonts from my library either.

 

[ezekielrage_99]

That looks like it's the lovechild of Papyrus and Comic Sans... I'm guessing the font foundry who created this then hung them selves after, because it's horrid.

 

[Funkatronic]

Dear god that font is scary. OP, did you finally figure out what it was?

 

[jared_kipe]

Better question, does it only happen in Safari? Someones probably playing a practical joke on you using a custom loaded CSS file.
Safari->Preferences->Advanced->StyleSheet

Or by renaming a font, which would seem less likely. Since CNN uses Arail, Helvetica, sans-serif; font stack. And engadget uses Georgia, serif;

 

[simply amazing]

try using this site:
http://www.identifont.com/index.html

i tried narrowing it down, but i couldn't find it. maybe you'll have better luck

 

[mooblie]

...or try this site: http://www.whatfontis.com/

 

[6749974]

Your last hope

I actually wrote about this on Arthustler but to sum it up, if WhatTheFont isn't working, and Typophile's ID Board isn't helping, you can either twitter Stephen Coles of Typographica or better yet try a 30-day free trial of Find My Font that matches fonts from an image to fonts on your computer. Seems like that would be your best bet since it will go through your loaded fonts.