# What happened to my fonts?

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**Created:** [January 1, 2014, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-my-fonts/677667 "2014-01-01T23:58:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\
**Post date:** [January 1, 2014, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-my-fonts/677667/1 "2014-01-01T23:58:57Z")

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Did something happen to the fonts this morning? All of a sudden, the fonts used in the body of posts became really really small, almost unreadable. I may have accidentally hit a keystroke that auto-changed it, but nothing else on the Internet appears to have been affected.

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**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\
**Post date:** [January 2, 2014, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-my-fonts/677667/2 "2014-01-02T00:07:17Z")

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It all looks the same to me. I’m pretty sure nothing has changed on the SDMB side of things.

You might have accidentally changed it, as you mentioned, or it’s also possible that your browser did an update last night and something in the update is making it go wonky, What browser (and operating system) are you using?

ETA: CTRL + (Control and plus key) and CTRL - (Control and minus key) change the zoom level on firefox. CTRL 0 (control and zero) will set it back to the default.

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**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\
**Post date:** [January 2, 2014, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-my-fonts/677667/3 "2014-01-02T00:08:22Z")

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Ctrl plus makes fonts bigger; Ctrl minus makes them smaller; Ctrl zero makes them default.

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**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\
**Post date:** [January 2, 2014, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-my-fonts/677667/4 "2014-01-02T00:13:19Z")

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This is firefox specific but some of the issues (like font corruption) apply to other browsers as well:

[https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/933800](https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/933800)

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**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\
**Post date:** [January 2, 2014, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-my-fonts/677667/5 "2014-01-02T00:29:19Z")

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> [@engineer\_comp\_geek](#):
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> ETA: CTRL + (Control and plus key) and CTRL - (Control and minus key) change the zoom level on firefox. CTRL 0 (control and zero) will set it back to the default.

It worked – everything’s back to normal now, thanks!