Fix Helvetica displaying as Itallic on Firefox OSX
Another recurring problem i’ve had with fonts since upgrading to snow leopard and perhaps even before that, is with Helvetica displaying incorrectly in firefox. Long story short it’s a conflict between the existing OS font, and an older version of Linotype Font Explorer Pro (v1.2.3 - incidentally the last free version).
The solution:
Apparently disabling / paid upgrade to Font Explorer will fix it, I opted for a complete uninstall of font explorer and a switch to FontCase.
I also ended up having to clear my font cache which was best achieved using the tool ‘Font Finagler’ ( 10.6 users use the 1.5beta link half way down the page); The UI is a little confusing at first, so what you want to do is:
1. Click the ‘Inspect Font Cache Files’ button to populate the fields with font data
2. Hit the now enabled ‘Clean Font Cache Files’ button to clear the cache and perform a hard restart.
After that you’re golden.
Thanks Zeldman
Source: zeldman.com
