XP Standard Installed fonts ???

[James Byrne]

Since a repair install of XP Home, I find that occasional system dialogs,
webpage text, system tray prompts are in an incorrect (and often unreadable
therefore) font. For example NAV LiveUpdate prompts from the tray are in Old
English!! -illegible in that small point size. Some webpages include some or
all text that is rendered in a clearly inappropriate typeface; the default
defined in IE Options should be used. The fonts chosen wrongly are amongst
ones I have installed and use, so I don't want to simple delete them to see
if it fixes things.

I conclude that certain "system fonts" are missing or are incorrectly mapped
(?) somewhere so that XP is using the wrong font. Kelly's "XP fonts" link is
broken and I can't find any other list.

What are the standard installed fonts included in XP Home?
If my installed fonts are, in fact, correct, why do certain things display
in a wrong font?
TIA James

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

Since a repair install of XP Home, I find that occasional system
dialogs, webpage text, system tray prompts are in an incorrect (and
often unreadable therefore) font. For example NAV LiveUpdate prompts
from the tray are in Old English!! -illegible in that small point
size. Some webpages include some or all text that is rendered in a
clearly inappropriate typeface; the default defined in IE Options
should be used. The fonts chosen wrongly are amongst ones I have
installed and use, so I don't want to simple delete them to see if it
fixes things.

I conclude that certain "system fonts" are missing or are incorrectly
mapped (?) somewhere so that XP is using the wrong font. Kelly's "XP
fonts" link is broken and I can't find any other list.

What are the standard installed fonts included in XP Home?
If my installed fonts are, in fact, correct, why do certain things
display in a wrong font?
TIA James

Have you tried setting your display settings back to Windows Classic or
Windows XP? (I prefer the former, meself).

 

[James Byrne]

"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"

Have you tried setting your display settings back to Windows Classic or
Windows XP? (I prefer the former, meself).

Tried that. It makes no difference. As an example, if you go to
http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/g/i/gisthyf.htm

what font do you see for the paragraph beginning "This particular poem held
such...." between the two pictures? I see a virtually illegible block, all
caps font, which I cannot seem to match with any font on my system, although
it is close to ErieContour. I deleted this font, but no difference. I've
gone blind trying to match the typeface with an installed font. It MUST be
one of them, surely?

The red copyright line just above the verses is the same font in a smaller
size.

This one has me beat! HELP!! TIA James

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"

Have you tried setting your display settings back to Windows Classic
or Windows XP? (I prefer the former, meself).

Tried that. It makes no difference. As an example, if you go to
http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/g/i/gisthyf.htm

what font do you see for the paragraph beginning "This particular
poem held such...." between the two pictures? I see a virtually
illegible block, all caps font, which I cannot seem to match with any
font on my system, although it is close to ErieContour. I deleted
this font, but no difference. I've gone blind trying to match the
typeface with an installed font. It MUST be one of them, surely?

The red copyright line just above the verses is the same font in a
smaller size.

Alas, it looks fine to me, so I don't know what to say....anything
interesting in your event logs? If you create another user and log in, does
it look OK then? If not, perhaps a repair install of XP might be in
order....blunt force approach?

 

[Peter Scott]

I had a problem one time which may relate to this. I had a corrupt theme
installed that set text to black on black, unfortunately I can't say which
font.
Try right clicking the desktop and select properties then change your theme
to something else.

 

[James Byrne]

Tried that. Set to Win Classic, no difference. Returned to my own theme, no
difference. It really is odd. Thanks for your comments.

re: repair install. Just done this. No difference.... and the screen that
displays at the end of setup, welcoming one for the first time to XP (NOT
the login Welcome screen, which is fine) was displayed in an Old English
font. I can't say which font, since I have a few variants on this type, but
it was one of them. Arrrggghhh!!

James

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

What about the suggestion to try logging in under a different user
account/profile?

 

[David Candy]

http://www.microsoft.com/typography/fonts/default.asp

 

[Alex Nichol]

I conclude that certain "system fonts" are missing or are incorrectly mapped
(?) somewhere so that XP is using the wrong font. Kelly's "XP fonts" link is
broken and I can't find any other list.

What are the standard installed fonts included in XP Home?
If my installed fonts are, in fact, correct, why do certain things display
in a wrong font?

The ones it installs that get most use are
Arial
Tahoma
Lucida
Trebuchet
Times
Courier

Most likely references in the registry have got fouled up. Usually the
way to deal with such things is to make changes - arbitrarily - and then
put things back

Go to Display - Appearance, click Advanced and look at the various items
selected in Items for the font in use. Change them and Apply. Then in
Display - Settings click advanced and change the DPI setting; Apply and
OK out. That should put you clean on a new set of fonts; you can then
adjust them (particularly putting DPI back again)

 

[James Byrne]

Tried that, but it makes no difference. I'm wondering whether to move all
but the few "XP required" fonts out of \wondows\fonts temporarily and see
what happens. James

 

[Alex Nichol]

Tried that, but it makes no difference. I'm wondering whether to move all
but the few "XP required" fonts out of \wondows\fonts temporarily and see
what happens. James

In that case I'd get fresh copies from the CD (presuming you have a
'proper' one). Make a folder - say C:\Fonts and then in a Command
Prompt, with the CD in the drive (assume x give
EXPAND x:\i386\*.tt_ C:\Fonts

You will then have the files in C:\Fonts (I *think* they will have been
expanded to the .ttf extension) and you can in Windows\Fonts delete the
old ones and File - Install these copies (taking the copy into Fonts
folder option)