# Did you change fonts?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-change-fonts/80712
**Category:** About This Message Board
**Created:** [September 10, 2001, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-change-fonts/80712 "2001-09-10T18:06:49Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2001, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-change-fonts/80712/1 "2001-09-10T18:06:49Z")
or is my monitor acting up?
or do my glasses need cleaning?
thanks,
Shibb
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### Author:  [@JeffB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JeffB)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2001, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-change-fonts/80712/2 "2001-09-10T20:53:21Z")
Everything looks normal to me. What exactly are you seeing that’s different? If you’re referring to the way the thread title is squished (like in this forum), that because of long usernames is the “thread starter” column. FYI, I’m using Netscape 4.76.
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### Author:  [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2001, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-change-fonts/80712/3 "2001-09-10T21:16:28Z")
All the parts that are in **Bold** seem to be in a fuzzier, more squarish font. And I didn’t drink nearly enough beer this weekend to cause this illusion purely via internal chemical manipulation, IIRC.
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### Author:  [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2001, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-change-fonts/80712/4 "2001-09-10T22:13:58Z")
Here’s what the code is that makes the last post:
```auto
All the parts that are in Bold
seem to be in a fuzzier, more squarish font. And I didn't drink nearly enough
beer this weekend to cause this illusion purely via internal chemical manipulation,
IIRC.
```
It seems that verdana is not in the font list for the body of the post. I think I know why, but don’t know if this is deliberate or not. Or perhaps it has been this way for a while… **TubaDiva**?
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### Author:  [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2001, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-change-fonts/80712/5 "2001-09-10T22:24:42Z")
The boards don’t look any different to me at all (IE5, Win98) – Arial font for posts, etc.
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### Author:  [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2001, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-change-fonts/80712/6 "2001-09-11T03:32:34Z")
It looks normal again now. Either it was something with the font set up on my computer or my glasses, I am wearing my contact lenses right now. Sorry to bother you.