Affinity Designer Artboard Titles are Unreadable

[Laurents]

Whether creating a new file or modifying an existing file, the artboard Title font seems to be in a font called Cairo or ?cairo as I found a document i made a long time ago that has text that is the same and seems to be a different font than what it was created in.  The Layer labels are just fine.

My settings are English which i though maybe at first that was the issue.  Not sure when this happened as I dont use it often.  Super frustrating.

[GarryP]

Possibly related to:

https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/173329-garbled-artboard-name/
https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/177984-artboard-name-font/
https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/170981-designer-v2-ipad-artboard-name-display-problem/
https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/188638-typing-weird-characters-only-in-affinity/
etc.

Examples found by searching the forums for artboard name .

[Laurents]

Thanks I've read all these. It almost seems using a font manager and activating and deactivating fonts may be the cause. though none of those posts have a fix.

[stokerg]

Hi @Laurents,

Do you still have the full set of Ariel fonts on your system?  I believe that is the default font we use for Artboards and seems to be confirmed on one of the links posted above here on the 2nd page.  That user was able to reinstall Ariel and the problem was resolved.

21 hours ago, Laurents said:

It almost seems using a font manager and activating and deactivating fonts may be the cause

Yes, this can cause problems, especially when removing protected system fonts, which Ariel is.

[Laurents]

stokerg,

I have never uninstalled or removed any protected system font. However you were right. Arial-MT was installed and was definitely a different language.  Font removed and everything works correctly.