Windows font corrupted after installing a dodgy font

[daring lagoon]

Good Day all,

A few days ago I installed some fonts that I ripped from a website. One of these being an Arial font "Arial 2" Upon realising the issue I uninstalled the fonts, though I couldn't find the "Arial 2" font in my installed folder. Though somehow now, when clicking on this in the downloads it's asking me to install. Now, I have noticed when on the web browser my fonts have messed up, and it doesn't matter which typeface is in use. I have posted some screenshots of the issue.

Would I have to do a reinstall of the windows fonts folder, I remember doing this some years back as I had a similar issue, though I am concerned doing this will erase third party fonts.
Thank you in advance.

Even on Ebay it's using some sort of times new roman font, despite the site not being programmed to use this typeface

[peak topaz]

I'd recommend performing a clean windows install

[daring lagoon]

I remember a while back the same thing happened and I was able to re download the windows fonts from the windows servers

[peak topaz]

Lmao sounds like a hacky workaround 😛

[daring lagoon]

it's strange look

[peak topaz]

Trippy looking

[nimble pivot]

what it looks like is that the font you installed either overwrote the arial font on your machine, or it’s taking priority over the original arial font

look through your installed fonts and see if you can find it and uninstall it

they should be in windows settings

if not, you may need to reinstall the arial font family

[nimble pivot]

“linus tech tips hard r” 💀

try following method 1 of this guide: https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/119581-restore-default-font-settings-windows.html

doing this will indeed erase third party fonts, but that’s the only inbuilt way i believe

if you’re not willing to do this however, finding the arial font from a different install of windows and putting it in your fonts folder should also alleviate the issue

[daring lagoon]

I've gone over the Arial fonts in the folder and they all appear fine

this font is apparently Arial

[daring lagoon]

I found it @nimble pivot

it was in AppData

[nimble pivot]

ah good, glad to hear

[hardy grove]

That does not look like Arial in those images

[daring lagoon]

so that Arial font in the app data was mismatched up with some times new roman font

it's because I ripped the font from a website and it basically took a load of random letters and put them into a font named Arial

[atomic dirge]

bru don't jump to conclusions