# Um, ner? (Fonts)

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-ner-fonts/81913>\
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**Created:** [September 16, 2001, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-ner-fonts/81913 "2001-09-16T02:12:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![andygirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@andygirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andygirl)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2001, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-ner-fonts/81913/1 "2001-09-16T02:12:02Z")

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Periodically I find the forum jumps to be written in what I think is Wingdings. I’ve seen this on more than one computer, and it’s passing odd enough that I thought it worth mentioning.

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**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2001, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-ner-fonts/81913/2 "2001-09-16T03:29:15Z")

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That IS odd. Never seen it, though that doesn’t mean anything.

Can you give me more information? Were you in Netscape all those times, by any chance? I get a lot of stuff in Netscape that looks just plain odd, can’t read the fonts, etc. vB is really not configured for Netscape and so that would be my first WAG.

your humble TubaDiva  
Administrator

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**Author:** ![andygirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@andygirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andygirl)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2001, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-ner-fonts/81913/3 "2001-09-17T03:20:05Z")

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Both times I’ve been on Internet Explorer, but that might just be one of those loading quirks. It’s not at all detrimental, so it’s probably not even worth worrying about.

Besides, they look kind of cool.