Question

I have Helvetica installed on my Windows XP PC, which is great for designing, but Helvetica looks horrendous when displayed in a browser on PC.

For example, I visit a website with this style:

font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;

Helvetica is selected, as it is installed on my system.

Can I force Firefox to pretend Helvetica isn’t installed on my system, and render these pages using Arial?

Answer 1

The other day I came across a site that used Comic Sans, and I decided I wanted to replace it with Verdana. I did some googling and found this Greasemonkey script which removes Comic Sans from any website you visit. I rewrote that script to replace Helvetica with Arial

var tags = document.getElementsByTagName('*');
for (var i in tags) {
    var style = getComputedStyle(tags[i], '');
    if (style.fontFamily.match(/helvetica/i)) {
        var fonts = style.fontFamily.split(',');
        for (var j in fonts) {
            if (fonts[j].match(/helvetica/i)) {
                fonts[j] = 'arial';
            }
        }
        tags[i].style.fontFamily = fonts.join(',');
    }
}