Strange font issue when using Material UI

Hi there,

It's a problem with a font of some kind. You may see it even on fresh install with no GUI theme plugins. Try manually selecting another font .. or if you know which one it is -- try reinstalling the font.

I personally do not know the better cure.

Does it work fine without Material UI plugin activated?

It works fine without the plugin - very odd!

Will it work if you choose another font at "Settings | Appearance & Behavior | Appearance --> Override default fonts by" ?

Hello Dan,

I have same problem as you described. Windows 10 + Phpstorm - when activating material theme the font looks like on your screenshot - very odd.

Any help appreciated.

Did you try a suggestion posted above?

Hi Dmitry,

Override default fonts by .... - checked - resolved my issue!

Thanks for help.

Cool, thanks for letting us know

Had something like this for Webstorm, what I ended up doing was:

1. Downloading Roboto font:
https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Roboto?selection.family=Roboto

2. Installing the fonts
3. Restarting WebStorm

That fixed my issue.

@Fadi Nice!!! Thanks your

I'm having this issue but can't even navigate around the UI to make any of the above changes, since I can't read any of the menus, etc...  How do I proceed?

@Rsimpson

Not sure if it will fix your issue but doesn't hurt to try it. Try my three steps above.

This step might not be needed but it's something that I have run into before. Delete Roboto fonts from the system before installing/reinstalling them.

@Fadi, I did dl and install those fonts... restarted WebStorm, still saw the whacked fonts but was able to fuss my way into uninstalling the material theme.  Upon restarting WebStorm, I re-installed the theme and now everything looks good.  Thanks for the help.

hi dan

i had this problem as well and i managed to fix it, this happened because you changed your system font, to fix this you have to change your system font back to default.

make a new notepad file on your desktop and name it "change default font.reg" do not add the quotation marks

then copy and paste this into this notepad file.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Fonts]
"Segoe UI (TrueType)"="segoeui.ttf"
"Segoe UI Black (TrueType)"="seguibl.ttf"
"Segoe UI Black Italic (TrueType)"="seguibli.ttf"
"Segoe UI Bold (TrueType)"="segoeuib.ttf"
"Segoe UI Bold Italic (TrueType)"="segoeuiz.ttf"
"Segoe UI Emoji (TrueType)"="seguiemj.ttf"
"Segoe UI Historic (TrueType)"="seguihis.ttf"
"Segoe UI Italic (TrueType)"="segoeuii.ttf"
"Segoe UI Light (TrueType)"="segoeuil.ttf"
"Segoe UI Light Italic (TrueType)"="seguili.ttf"
"Segoe UI Semibold (TrueType)"="seguisb.ttf"
"Segoe UI Semibold Italic (TrueType)"="seguisbi.ttf"
"Segoe UI Semilight (TrueType)"="segoeuisl.ttf"
"Segoe UI Semilight Italic (TrueType)"="seguisli.ttf"
"Segoe UI Symbol (TrueType)"="seguisym.ttf"
"Segoe MDL2 Assets (TrueType)"="segmdl2.ttf"
"Segoe Print (TrueType)"="segoepr.ttf"
"Segoe Print Bold (TrueType)"="segoeprb.ttf"
"Segoe Script (TrueType)"="segoesc.ttf"
"Segoe Script Bold (TrueType)"="segoescb.ttf"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\FontSubstitutes]

"Segoe UI"=-

after this save the file then close it then run it.

this will change your system font to the default font and also fix your pycharm problem

Loaded up Webstorm this morning and thought my roommate slipped some kinda hallucinogen in my coffee, cause I was having the exact problem. Not fun when you're still trying to wake up, lol. Had to test my memory for what each UI element was trying to depict in what appeared to be Martian. Luckily this thread pointed me in the direction of disabling the Material Theme plugin and after restart was g2g.

Going to try future A.P.'s font fix when I have time so I can re-enable :p

Check out this solution as well: https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360000919359/comments/360000147800