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By Somil Bhargava - June 10, 2014

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I am a part-time web designer and I downloaded and installed Helvetica Neue because of its popularity among web designers. Once I had
Helvetica Neue installed, my chrome started giving me weird font for very popular and reputed websites. Below is a snapshot of Yahoo
answers and the words highlighted in yellow is the problem. The font looks different and ugly. Find out below How to Fix Helvetica Neue Font
Issue in Chrome?

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For quite sometime i was tired of installing and re installing Chrome but the problem still persisted. I even searched for some good extension
that would do my job, but to no use. After some research i.e reading on various forums and Google search I figured out that the problem
actually was in the font Helvetica Neue that i had installed few days back. You could verify it by using the Inspect Elements. You simply have to
highlight the text having problem, right-click on your mouse and click on Inspect Elements. A snapshot of it is given below.
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highlight the text having problem, right-click on your mouse and click on Inspect Elements. A snapshot of it is given below.

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The snapshot below shows that the problem was with Helvatica Neue font.

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The problem can be solved by the following two ways:

Permanent Solution:
I believe you dont want to delete the font, do you ? If no, then this is not of much importance to you. However you if you wish to do so, simply
restart your computer in safe mode and delete the font from the Control Panel

Temporary Solution:
Here we would be modifying the chrome file and hence would solve the purpose.
1. Open your Windows Explorer.
2. Go to > C:\Users\[YourName]\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\User StyleSheets\custom.css
3. Now open the file custom.css. This could be done using a notepad.
4. Simply add the two code given below. Your problem is solved

@font-face { font-family: helvetica neue; src: local(Arial); }

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@font-face { font-family: helvetica neue; font-weight:bold; src: local(Arial); }

The above two lines is a simple code that would replace the font Helvetica Neue in the browser with Arial Font. You could simply change the
name of the font and get the font replaced by a font you like.
Below is a snapshot of the results. Cheers !

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9 COMMENTS

Mike Stevens
September 2, 2014 at 11:08 pm

I installed the Change Font Family Style extension for Chrome and the issue went away.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/change-font-family-style/aabledekpjmoghdjnpnhfkfpmjifklpb/details
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Kima
September 11, 2014 at 1:02 pm

Removing the font in Safe Mode didnt work. I used the technique Mike Stevens mentioned in the comment above and it worked
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Koen
October 31, 2014 at 1:44 am

Had the same issue, but Mike Stevens solution also removed my glymps, for example here: http://getbootstrap.com/components/
What fixed it for me was simply this:
Paste this into the Chrome address bar and turn on the direct-write setting:
chrome://flags/#disable-direct-write
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Greg Gaugler
January 14, 2015 at 8:55 pm

This is outdated. That user style sheet no longer exists.

There is an extension for google chrome, Change Font Family Style that will remove the use of Helvetica in 95% of places. Trying to
find a better solution though.
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Dev Uberoi
January 27, 2015 at 5:20 pm

Anyone still facing the issue can use this Extension:

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Anyone still facing the issue can use this Extension:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/%E5%BC%BA%E5%88%B6%E7%BD%91%E9%A1%B5%E4%BD%BF%E7%94%A8%E8%8
7%AA%E5%AE%9A%E4%B9%89%E5%AD%97%E4%BD%93/hckjchjpkmbihoocajjpjajkggbccgee?utm_source=chrome-app-launcherinfo-dialog
1. Install Extension
2. Settings > Extensions > Force Custom Fonts (Options)
3. Under Substitute Fonts, click +, add Helvetica Neue to Arial
4. Save and then Refresh the affected pages
5. Buy me a beer
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SophyDJ
May 1, 2016 at 5:03 pm

ah, thank you

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t@lu
June 12, 2015 at 11:18 am

Just remove all Helvetica fonts.

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January 16, 2016 at 11:43 pm

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How to Fix Helvetica Neue Font Issue in Chrome | SmuGG BuGG

August 8, 2016 at 5:47 pm

[] When I had Helvetica Neue introduced, my chrome began giving me abnormal textual style for very popular and reputed websites.
Below is a snapshot of Yahoo answers and the words highlighted in yellow is the issue. The text style looks changed and ugly. Feel free
to read this article on how to fix Helvetica Neue Font Issue in ChromeRead Full Post []
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