If you happen to be on Windows and have Helvetica (or Helvetica Nueue), then you are probably well aware how terribly Windows renders the font. It’s ugly in every way imaginable, and at smaller font sizes, you are forced to decipher a group of letters smashed into an incomprehensible blob. I didn’t want to outright uninstall the font through, so I just lived with the problem for the longest time.
GitHub using Helvetica
Occasionally I peruse through the Firefox addons directory with no hope of finding a font replacer addon, but I was quite delighted to see that it finally exists! Font Replacer does it really well — in its configuration dialog, you list the fonts you want to replace on the left and then you list the replacements fonts on the right (the interface is in Spanish).
GitHub using Arial
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I’ve made last week the mistake of installing Helvetica on Windows Vista, and alot get ugly, not only webpages, but a lot of chrome extensions and other things.
The problem is that I can’t just uninstall this font, since Windows complains that it’s been used in some other places.
Did you have any tips on how to uninstall this font?
Thanks in advance!
Augh! Someone else with my exact problem! (Though I’m on Win7 Ultimate.)
I actually got rid of the hellish Windows Helvetica once by booting into safe mode and removing it then. All was fine and dandy and Arial, but at some nondescript point in the future, it came back on its own.
I’ve been living with it again ever since. I don’t run Firefox as my personal browser anymore because it’s too damn slow compared to Chrome, so I don’t have access to handy extensions like the one in this post.
Maybe the solution isn’t to remove the Helvetica file entirely but to *empty* it and then set it to read-only. Maybe that would keep it from coming back…