Does anyone else have this weird workspaces font?

Your font looks a lot like MS PMincho. I wonder if you have a default font set in your browser settings this is overriding what the website is trying to display. You might search through your default web browser fonts .. it is typically under settings and see if you have MS Pmincho set as the default for any of your fonts. Changing this may change the view in your console window.

I just had the same thing happen to me. I didn’t change anything in my default font settings. It just suddenly starting using this font a few nights ago when I opened a workspace.

Reinstalling Chrome, like Reece Leu did, fixed it for me as well.

Google Chrome: Reinstall a non-developer version of Chrome. Mozilla FireFox: Visit the workspaces in another FireFox window then go to options > content > advanced then change the font to something like Verdana. Make sure to uncheck the "Use websites specified font" and change the Sans to Sans Serif.

If you bring up the console you'll see the Workspaces throwing off this error:

Font from origin 'https://wac.a8b5.edgecastcdn.net' has been blocked from loading by Cross-Origin Resource Sharing policy: No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource. Origin 'http://teamtreehouse.com' is therefore not allowed access.

Below is the workaround I shared on a similar thread:

OK found a workaround so I can continue to code without my eyes bleeding. :D

The problem is that there is some issue with Treehouse where the Source Code font is not loading, so it falls back to the next font in the font stack. For whatever reason, the next font in the stack is a Japanese font with really horrid looking Latin characters. This Japanese font is by default installed on the Windows operating system.

I tried just deleting that font since I don't need it but it's a "protected system font" so I could not. I went in to the registry to kill the font there, but it still stuck around. I then went in to the C:\windows\winsxs folder, located the backup versions of the font and tried to delete it. Only "TrustedInstaller" had access so I then took ownership of those folders. It still wouldn't allow me to delete the font.

Finally, I got a boot version of Ubuntu and booted off a USB stick. That FINALLY allowed me to delete the offending fonts.

When deleting, go in to the C:\windows\winsxs folder an search for "fonts-truetype". I deleted MS Gothic, MS PGothic, and Mieryo as they were all the Japanese fonts. I would also recommend you copy your fonts folder to another folder just as a backup so that you can reinstall those fonts when Treehouse does fix the problem.

Now when the Source Code font doesn't load it will fall back to the bottom of the font stack which is "monospaced." You can then go in to Chrome and set the monospaced font to what you want - I did it to Source Code.

A real PITA, but at least I can get back to work for now until Treehouse developers can come up with a better fix.

Hi folks,

We rolled out a fix for this on Monday, Sept 8, 2014. Sorry for the delay in addressing this. Please feel free to let our support team at help@teamtreehouse.com know of any problems like this.

myers