Google Web Fonts not displaying in Chrome OSX Lion

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Since installing a new font onto Mac OSX Lion a week ago, most non web-safe fonts, embedded using font-face or Javascript did not display in Google Chrome 17.  They did, however, display correctly in Firefox.

Left: Firefox 10 displaying Google Web Font correctly. Right: Chrome 17 not displaying the Google Web Font, despite using the same HTML and CSS.

Thanks to this post, I was able to find the solution:

  1. Open Terminal
  2. Type in atsutil databases -removeUser
  3. Type in atsutil server -shutdown
  4. Type in atsutil server -ping

Terminal Commands on OSX for font rendering fix

 

Chrome OSX Lion Google Web Font - now displaying correctly!

Thanks: http://surgeworks.com/blog/general/how-to-fix-chrome-for-mac-broken-fonts

Comments

Jack says:
April 3, 2012 at 1:45 am

Thanks so much, I’ve been having problems with fonts not displaying and this fixed it.

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Daniel says:
May 15, 2012 at 5:06 pm

Scared me a bit after doing this:
A number of fonts from the Helvetica Neue Family were not loading after running these Terminal Commands, but I just quit FontExplorerX and inDesign. After relaunching, all was good and right.

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