I found the idea, online, while originally searching for info on how to add/remove fonts aboard a Windows OS machine.
Somehow, a “font-family” that includes both Helvetica and Arial fonts, leaves an avenue for both fonts to be applied, per character (possibly a Blink > font rendering bug/thing?) – such that, one of the fonts, blends with / overlays the other . . . and the result causes some washout.
I did not use exactly, the following search criteria, as I stumbled along:
“remove “Helvetica neue” conflict with Arial fonts”
. . . but close to that, as my search criteria developed . . . as I found info about conflicts caused by (or allegedly caused by) font: “Helvetical neue”.
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