Duskwolf,
Thanks for the advice. Sadly, none of the fonts in Font Book look obscured like what I see in Geneforge. Font Book validation detected Missing OpenType Data for opens___.ttf, claimed it was critical, so I removed it. This still did not resolve the obscured fonts issue.
I've reinstalled, and redownloaded, all to no avail. If the font problem wasn't present when buying stuff (i.e. my current coins is in the obscured font) I could live with not seeing the name properly.
Interestingly, when I first ran Geneforge, I did not have any problems with the font, but it started appearing while playing that first instance. I told it not to switch resolution that first time. I have since re-run with the same "change resolution" option and confirmed the problem is permanent. It doesn't matter now what setting I use for resolution.
Time to email Jeff or to re-install the O/S?
Lineage The Silent
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