If anyone can give step-by-step instructions on where to find this Roboto font, maybe others, like myself, can be sure to check in the right places. Chris Bryant found his in Suitcase Fusion, but I am unsure if that is something he has added on or not. The other posts don't directly say where they found the offending font. I don't even know about font packages from Google Font, so anyone who might read this and can take a moment to direct others on how to find the Roboto or San Francisco or other offending fonts, please respond. 🙏
Something quite similar happened to me yesterday. I went to a Google Sheet in Chrome, already opened and working in from day before, and all the data was blank. The fill colors were there, and the formatting looked the same, but each sheet I went to was blank, or if I scrolled I might get something that looked like Russian. Every Google document I went into was messed up. I tried typing something, but realized I was changing the data in my documents, and had to blindly undo. At times I could read part of a document, but then if I scrolled, it either disappeared or turned into the garbled stuff. I know it was not a language, since I could see little icons like leaves and dingbat-type of cute icons mixed in with letters of every world language.
Just prior to this happening, we were doing a Team meeting over Zoom and when one of the guys tried to share his screen, Google Docs logged him out. A few minutes later another guy was going to share his screen and the same thing happened.
After finding my Google docs all messed up in Chrome, I figured it had to be something on Google, but wasn't getting any Google reports of issues that our department auto-sends us through Hangouts Chat (which of course, could also be going wonky since it is, after all, Google!).
No time to mess around with it, but I noticed Chrome needed to do an update, so clicked the little Update button in the upper right and let Chrome close and do its thing. When I reopened, it was still an issue, so today found this forum. Since I couldn't figure out where Roboto was, and since I never have messed with fonts - no reason and no desire - I saw, again, that Chrome needed an update (did it actually ever update yesterday or not??). I again, Quit Chrome, but never saw anything updating (with the auto-updates, it usually does it automatically after you shut down). After a while, I reopened, and manually checked for updates. It told me it was up to date.
I started looking through my documents, and all the text is normal again. Did it really update, or did I need to re-launch it a few times? And, do I have the Roboto font somewhere??
I went into my settings to Appearance>Customize fonts, not really sure where everyone else was talking about, and my standard font is Times, and in checking that and all the other types of fonts, there isn't even Roboto listed.
Again I wonder if an update or re-launch fixed it, or is this just a fluke and will I see this font issue again?
Again, if anyone who might read this and can take a moment to direct others on how to find the Roboto or San Francisco or other offending fonts, please respond. 🙏
