# Broken Number fonts in some applicaitons

**URL:** <https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/broken-number-fonts-in-some-applicaitons/41706>\
**Category:** Newbie\
**Created:** [June 6, 2023, 4:12pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/broken-number-fonts-in-some-applicaitons/41706 "2023-06-06T16:12:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![Atmosphery](https://forum.endeavouros.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/f08c70/32.png) [@Atmosphery](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/Atmosphery)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2023, 4:12pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/broken-number-fonts-in-some-applicaitons/41706/1 "2023-06-06T16:12:41Z")

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Hello, I have been having issues with number fonts sometimes looking funky. I am using the xfce4 DE. I currently have the AnonymicePro Nerd Font installed. This does not seem to affect my terminal.  
Here is a sample email in Thunderbird:

 ![image](https://forum.endeavouros.com/uploads/default/original/3X/a/e/ae5b068eb2e788c0eb45e8aa68ab36f1d03bb9a1.png)

Another example in the disks application:

 ![image](https://forum.endeavouros.com/uploads/default/original/3X/5/8/5877e69869d20bd546ba9138ce9861a967ae2727.png)

The numbers are not broken everywhere:

 ![image](https://forum.endeavouros.com/uploads/default/original/3X/9/8/9867b9f7898cc68e4368fc4726b7f29e79996a69.png)

I would appreciate any help as I couldn’t find anything online with a similar issue

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**Author:** ![kwg](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/kwg/32/16326_2.png) [@kwg](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/kwg)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2023, 5:09am UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/broken-number-fonts-in-some-applicaitons/41706/2 "2023-06-07T05:09:26Z")

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Notice in your screenshots that not only is there extra padding around the numbers, but the space character between words is extra wide.

This post might offer a solution:

> [@Strange fonts in Firefox (space and characters)](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/strange-fonts-in-firefox-space-and-characters/27153/33):
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> Do you happen to have noto-fonts-emoji installed on your system? If so, temporarily uninstall noto-fonts-emoji, reboot (or log out/in), and check Firefox again. The problem reported here seems similar to yours: [image] Notice in the screenshot above the extra-wide spacing between words, and the extra left and right padding around numerals. It’s also what I see in your screenshots. The problem in this case is that noto-fonts-emoji has somehow taken precedence over (has a higher preference t…

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**Author:** ![Atmosphery](https://forum.endeavouros.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/f08c70/32.png) [@Atmosphery](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/Atmosphery)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2023, 4:20pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/broken-number-fonts-in-some-applicaitons/41706/3 "2023-06-25T16:20:43Z")

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That fixed it, such a simple solution. Thank you for your help!

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**Author:** ![system](https://forum.endeavouros.com/uploads/default/original/2X/9/9ea52f9fd5ef8e609e593c362d61a36295f48be8.png) [@system](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2023, 4:21pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/broken-number-fonts-in-some-applicaitons/41706/4 "2023-06-27T16:21:25Z")

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Closed on June 27, 2023, 4:21pm UTC

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