All browsers displaying italic text when not supposed to - google-chrome

I am having a problem with my browsers (Safari, Chrome, and FF) displaying text in italics when it's not supposed to be italicized. This is happening on multiple sites including Google sites (Google, YouTube) as well as sites I have built and others (godaddy email, ford.com, even stackoverflow). Surprisingly though, it is not happening with my time tracker site (freeagent.com).
I have no idea what's going on. I have not installed any new software recently nor any new fonts. I am running Mac OS X lion.

I had the same problem where all the email titles were bold in my GoDaddy Email, on several browsers and only at one computer. It all happened after installing Suitcase Fusion and copying over a font library to that specific computer. I followed Lisa's suggestion and permanently turned on another version of Arial (TrueType, version 3.05) and it did the trick: all the email titles are back to normal (bold if unread, regular if read).

I've been having this problem... text bold and italic in all browsers, websites, twitter, even emails... what I did to fix it was make sure that Arial was turned on permanently in my Suitcase... it should have been anyway as a system font I guess but who cares because it fixed it!

Check your Safari Preference (Command-,), and navigate to Appearance tab, double check and make sure that the Standard font is non-italic font. Mine is Times 16. Hope this helps.

In chrome to solve this you have to do the following:
paste address bar the following and hit enter: chrome://flags#disable-direct-write
Under Disable DirectWrite Windows click "Enable" (this will disable DirectWrite in fact (background becomes white)
A button labeled "Relaunch Now" at the bottom of your screen will apear. Click that button and will relaunch Chrome with the new settings, and the text should appear normal after this.

Recently had this problem on my Windows 7 machine, while running Google Chrome Version 52.0.2743.116 m. None of the other fixes mentioned here worked for me.
Turns out that an installed application had reregistered some basic fonts, which lead to Chrome not being able to find the fonts. In my case it was NewspaperDirect's PressReader (which I don't recall ever installing), that modified the registry so some basic fonts pointed to .ttf files stored in PressReaders program files folder.
Fix
Run regedit.exe (with admin privileges)
Navigate to the registry key "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Fonts".
Scroll through the list of fonts, and locate any that are similar to "C:\Program Files (x86)\NewpaperDirect\PressReader\publisher\Styles\Fonts[font name].ttf"
Right click the value name and choose Modify....
Remove the directory path, so that all that remains is the file name "[font name].ttf".
Repeat 4 and 5 for all bad registry values.
Restart Chrome.
Registry value before fix
Bad registry value
Good registry value
Fixed registry value

if you have same problem with other browsers too, it may because of some errors in your fonts in windows. try to reinstall default windows font in your font folder (c:/windows/fonts). you can copy default font from another pc or download it from here :
http://www.withsteps.com/404/how-i-restored-my-windows-7-default-fonts.html

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Why Chrome display a random font instead the correct one?

I'm having this annoying problem, when I visit certain sites, are displayed wrong fonts, it's like something is overwriting my fonts. Checking in the console, I see that in the displayed fonts section, there is a font that i have locally installed on my pc, but i'm sure that isn't the right font to display.
Screenshot of the problem
I've checked all default font options on chrome settings and also if is a plugin doing this... but I can't find a solution. I also tried to temporary disable local fonts with the dev-console and it solves the problem, I don't really know why uses this fonts instead the correct ones. Any ideas ?

ErgoDox Oryx bad font in Chromium browsers

For all of my chromium based browsers, I'm getting a very bad font within Oryx for ErgoDox. If you're not familiar with the tool, you can see my keyboard layout here.
Update: I'm seeing in "Rendered Fonts" a strange font I don't recognize. Now I'm trying to work out how this is even happening, and why it's all my chromium browsers. See bottom photo below.
Update 2: The current theory is that my system is using the first "sans-serif" font it finds because of a syntax error in ErgoDox's CSS for the font-family; "Lato" should be enclosed in single quotes ' and it is not. This is causing my system to fall back to the first sans-serif font it finds, which is normally something more useful like "Arial", but is pix PixelFJVerdana12pt in my case. I've installed both "Lato" and "LatoLatin" and it is still rendering this awful font.
Update 3: Uninstalling "pix PixelFJVerdana12pt" fixed the issue ?? Now I'm looking into that font to figure out what the heck that even is? Now it renders Lato from the web? I'm putting an updated screenshot at the bottom with it fixed.
Here's what I've discovered and tried:
The site uses "Lato,sans-serif;" for all its fonts - loaded from woff2/woff files hosted on their site.
This problem exists for all of my chromium browsers: Chrome, Brave, Vivaldi, Edge.
The site loads just fine in chromium (Chrome) for a friend of mine.
The site loads just fine for me on my mobile phone.
Extensive searching online yields no reports of anyone else having this issue.
The site displays fine in Firefox.
I've installed Lato to my machine directly from Google Fonts.
I've downloaded the woff2/woff files from ErgoDox and opened them using a woff viewer online; they display correctly there.
Reloading the site with cache disabled does not work.
There are no console, or network errors (in developer tools).
The only extensions I have installed in this instance of chromium are: 1Password, Adobe Acrobat and Application Launcher for Drive (Google).
I run Windows Defender and Malwarebytes Enterprise.
I highly suspect this issue is local to me, and not a more global issue.
Anyone else with this issue? Any suggestions?
Problem demonstration:
Weird rendered font:
After uninstalling "pix PixelFJVerdana12pt":
The solution to the problem was to uninstall the "pix PixelFJVerdana12pt" font. I have no idea what is wrong with it, but it's now working as expected.
Those of you who get your kicks out of IT troubleshooting and mysteries, this is a good one for you to try to figure out! I'd still love to understand why this was happening - so strange.
I think I've figured it out and fixed it on my system - the font pix PixelFJVerdana12pt/PixelFJVerdana12pt by Flashjunior.ch has a TTF UniqueID of 0, which must cause Windows's font handling to treat it differently. I changed this to the font's name in FontForge, and replaced it on my system - after a restart of Chrome, the fonts in Oryx and gameatlas.com seem to be how they were intended to look.

What is the Google Chrome address bar font?

I think I'm using the last Google Chrome version, which is 8.1. What is the font of the address bar? I'm on Windows 10.
You can find it in Settings. Go to Advanced Settings and there is a place you can set the fonts and see what are the fonts that are being used. (On mac it's Preferences > Settings > Advanced Settings). See https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/chrome/uBAYr4WmZXU to confirm you can check font that way. Hope it helps.
According to me, the easy way to find a font is to do a printscreen of it, and then use a font finder like https://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/
It will analyse the text and gives you all matching fonts.

Can't see certain characters in Chrome (yes I searched, results didn't work)

So I found this site to make some silly text. I see this. Now I have a bunch of fonts installed that should allow me to see this (DeJaVu, Arial Unicode, Quivira, etc) and I tried various encoders too. I have no issues in Firefox and Chrome works on my MacBook but on my Windows 8.1 PC it just won't show. I am able to see this thing: ยป which some people have trouble seeing. And I tried incognito and still not working. Am I doing something wrong or what?
Have you tried installing the font Code2000? If that doesn't work with Chrome, try Code2000 in the newest IE (where I confirmed it work).

Text in WordPress not rendering correctly in Chrome

I made a form on my WordPress site that listed a few options. When viewing the website in Chrome the text doesn't render correctly, however, it renders correctly when viewing the page via Internet Explorer.
Not too sure for the reasoning behind this. Does anybody have a clue?
Sometimes, the default font on your computer might have been overwritten expecially if your font is georgia, I most times have this problem as well, i think what you should do is find another machine running your version of chrome, preferably newly formatted without font installation and test the page. also check the encoding, [utf_8(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Character_encodings_in_HTML) is the browser standard
This thread might show you how to change character encoding
Her is another resource that might help