For some reason NewsBlur (and only NewsBlur) is displaying in italics in this version of Chrome. No other website is doing this, and NewsBlur looks fine in IE and Firefox.
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I bet it’s a browser extension. Which extensions do you have installed? Try disabling all of them and seeing if that helps.
disabled the 3 extensions I was running, cleared the cache files and history, restarted Chrome - no change.
How about browser stylesheet?
I had exactly the same problem this morning (2 days ago it was fine). I suspect either a Chrome update (that incorporates Flash into it) or an Adobe update broke it; both were done sometime in the past 5 days for me.
The solution was actually posted here: https://getsatisfaction.com/newsblur/topics/all_the_regular_text_when_i_visit_newsblur_is_now_showin…
Shut down Chrome and delete the Lucida Sans font. That just worked for me.
Jason
Perfect - thank you!
Yep; deleting Lucida Sans cleared it up for me.
Any workaround when you’re not the Admin? Can’t exactly go to IT and say “This font makes my newsreader look weird and I’d like to waste time please.”
Well I think you should be able to go to IT and say that a broken font is making a website look wrong. It’s a broken font, something IT should be able to fix.
If you have access to your browser’s stylesheet override, you can add this:
body {  font-family: “Lucida Grande”, Verdana, “Helvetica Neue”, Helvetica, sans-serif; }
The problem can also be fixed by disabling DirectWrite within Chrome.  Type “chrome://flags”. Under experiments there is an option for “DirectWrite: Enables the use of experimental DirectWrite font rendering system”. Click disable then at the bottom “Relaunch Now”. This is probably a better solution that deleting the font.Â
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That worked, thanks jdc!