Cryptic, chaotic, nonsensical fonts in Firefox, Chrome and Franz app

[chfilm]

Hi,
I have the weirdest issue since day 1 of when I got my m1 macbook pro two years ago. I managed to largely avoid it but sometimes still run into it- in the beginning I thought this was due to some m1 adoption issues, but by now it should have been patched but it still persists.

When I use Google Chrome or Firefox, sometimes I get everything to look like this:

there's no way for me to do anything about it. Reinstalling doesnt help.
Is this a known issue? I didnt know what to google for, so I couldnt find any helpful solutions...
I'm on 13.4.1 on an m1 max mbp.

 

[Slartibart]

you have the font “Roboto” installed on your system? Remove or deactivate it using Font Book. Check and resolve any font issues Font Book reports additionally.

In some versions of Firefox and Chrome hardware acceleration cause this kind of problem - the links explain how&where turn it off in either browser.

 

[chfilm]

wow, thanks a lot, deactivating roboto did the trick! This bothered me for two years!!!

 

[HDFan]

you have the font “Roboto” installed on your system?

How did you figure out that was the problem?

 

[Slartibart]

How did you figure out that was the problem?

Like many others here, I am a library. 😁

 

[chfilm]

you have the font “Roboto” installed on your system? Remove or deactivate it using Font Book. Check and resolve any font issues Font Book reports additionally.

In some versions of Firefox and Chrome hardware acceleration cause this kind of problem - the links explain how&where turn it off in either browser.

I have a similar issue now sometimes in other apps all of a sudden - how can I check for any other issues in fontbook?