What font is the base font on Wiki?

Hi all, can anyone help me please One of my fonts is corrupt, and I can't view a wiki site as that is the font that is corrupted. I have tried to get at the css to see what font it is, but to no avail as I keep getting the 404 error page show up.

I will be very grateful if anyone can tell me what font it is. I hope it is not a system font, as I can see no way of removing them to re-install

 

It looks like the main font is Times New Roman 12 point.

Is it this font thats stopped working?

 

No my TNS is fine Damn.

I think I am going to have to strip my fonts and re-install them all It is such a bugger I don't want to risk it.

 

It's definitely a sans-serif font.

OWG, Go through all your fonts in a font viewer and see which one doesn't show up. Or look through this CSS

Here's the Wikipedia stylesheets (2 of 'em)

/* Common CSS for all skins */

/* Notice to Administrators!  Any changes to Monobook.css or Common.css should be first proposed to [[Wikipedia:Village Pump]].  Thank you. */
/*<pre><nowiki>*/

/* wikitable/prettytable class for skinning normal tables */

table.wikitable,
table.prettytable {
  margin: 1em 1em 1em 0;
  background: #f9f9f9;
  border: 1px #aaaaaa solid;
  border-collapse: collapse;
}

table.wikitable th, table.wikitable td,
table.prettytable th, table.prettytable td {
  border: 1px #aaaaaa solid;
  padding: 0.2em;
}

table.wikitable th,
table.prettytable th {
  background: #f2f2f2;
  text-align: center;
}

table.wikitable caption,
table.prettytable caption {
  margin-left: inherit;
  margin-right: inherit;
}

/* Style for "notices" */
.notice {
    text-align: justify;
    margin: 1em;
    padding: 0.2em;
}

#disambig {
    border-top: 3px double #cccccc; 
    border-bottom: 3px double #cccccc;
}

#spoiler {
    border-top: 2px solid #ddd;
    border-bottom:2px solid #ddd;
}

/* Standard talk template style */

.Talk-Notice  {
    border: 1px solid #C0C090;
    background-color: #F8EABA;
    margin-bottom: 3px;
    width: 80%;
    border-spacing: 3px;
    margin-left: auto;
    margin-right: auto;
}

.Talk-Notice:after {
  content: "The CSS for this template should be changed. See [[Wikipedia:Template Standardisation]].";
}

/* Make template background appear correctly on all browsers */
.Talk-Notice td {
    background: inherit;
}

/* Metadata */
table.metadata {
    border: 1px solid #aaaaaa;
    display: none;
    speak: none;
}
.metadata-label {
    color: #aaaaaa;
}

/* Makes redirects appear in italics on [[Special:Allpages]] */
.allpagesredirect {
    font-style: italic;
}

/* Choose whether to have AD/BC dates or CE/BCE dates*/

/* First, the default : display both : See templates ADCE and BCEBC for how these are used*/
.Use_Default_Date_Convention { display: inline; }
.Use_AD_and_BC { display: none; }
.Use_BCE_and_CE { display: none; }

/* If you want to display AD and BC add the following to User:You/monobook.css page */
/*
.Use_Default_Date_Convention { display: none; }
.Use_AD_and_BC { display:inline; }
.Use_BCE_and_CE { display:none; }
*/

/*If you want to display CE and BCE add the following to User:You/monobook.css page */
/*
.Use_Default_Date_Convention { display: none; }
.Use_AD_and_BC { display:none; }
.Use_BCE_and_CE {display:inline; }
*/

/* Class for links with loudspeaker icon next to them */

.audiolink a{
    background: url("http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f7/Loudspeaker.png") center left no-repeat !important;
    padding-left: 16px !important;
    padding-right: 0 !important;
}

/* Icons for medialist templates [[Template:Listen]], [[Template:Multi-listen_start]], [[Template:Video]], [[Template:Multi-video_start]] */

div.listenlist {
    background: url("http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Gnome-speakernotes.png/30px-Gnome-speakernotes.png");
    padding-left: 40px;
}

div.videolist {
    background: url("http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/Video.svg/40px-Video.svg.png");
    padding-left: 50px;
}

div.multivideolist {
    background: url("http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/20/Tango-video-x-generic.png/40px-Tango-video-x-generic.png");
    padding-left: 50px;
}

/* Style rules for media list templates */

div.medialist {
    min-height: 50px;
    margin: 1em;
    background-position: top left;
    background-repeat: no-repeat;
}

div.medialist ul {
    list-style-type: none; 
    list-style-image: none;
    margin: 0;
}

div.medialist ul li {
    padding-bottom: 0.5em;
}

div.medialist ul li li {
    font-size: 91%;
    padding-bottom: 0;
}

/* Content in columns with CSS instead of tables [[Template:Columns]] */
div.columns-2 div.column {
    float: left;
    width: 50%;
    min-width: 300px;
}

div.columns-3 div.column {
    float: left;
    width: 33.3%;
    min-width: 200px;
}

div.columns-4 div.column {
    float: left;
    width: 25%;
    min-width: 150px;
}

div.columns-5 div.column {
    float: left;
    width: 20%;
    min-width: 120px;
}

/*Add formatting to make sure that "external references" from [[Template:Ref]] do
  not get URL expansion, not even when printed. The mechanism up to MediaWiki 1.4 was
  that the HTML code contained a SPAN following the anchor A; this SPAN had the class
  "urlexpansion", which was not displayed on screen, but was shown when the medium was
  "print". The rules below ensure (a) that there is no extra padding to the right of
  the anchor (displayed as "[<number>]"), (b) that there is no "external link arrow" for
  the link, and (c) that this SPAN of class "urlexpansion" is never shown.
  ~~~~
*/

.plainlinksneverexpand {
  background: none ! important;
  padding: 0 ! important;
}

.plainlinksneverexpand .urlexpansion {
  display: none ! important;
}

/* Make sure that ext links displayed within "plainlinksneverexpand" don't get
   the arrow...
*/
.plainlinksneverexpand a {
   background: none !important;
   padding: 0 !important;
}

/* With MediaWiki 1.5, the mechanism has changed: instead of a SPAN of class "urlexpansion"
   following the anchor A, the anchor itself now has class "external autonumber" and the
   expansion is inserted when printing (see the common printing style sheet at
   [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/skins-1.5/common/commonPrint.css[/url]) using the ":after" pseudo-
   element of CSS. We have to switch this off for links due to Template:Ref!
   ~~~~
*/
.plainlinksneverexpand a.external.text:after {
  display: none !important;
}
.plainlinksneverexpand a.external.autonumber:after {
  display: none !important;
}

/* Messagebox templates */

.messagebox {
   border: 1px solid #aaaaaa;
   background-color: #f9f9f9;
   width: 80%;
   margin: 0 auto 1em auto;
   padding: .2em;
   text-align: justify;
}
.messagebox.merge {
   border: 1px solid #c0b8cc;
   background-color: #f0e5ff;
   text-align: center;
}
.messagebox.cleanup {
   border: 1px solid #9f9fff;
   background-color: #efefff;
   text-align: center;
}
.messagebox.standard-talk {
   border: 1px solid #c0c090;
   background-color: #f8eaba;
}

/* Infobox template style */

.infobox {
   border: 1px solid #aaaaaa;
   background-color: #f9f9f9;
   color: black;
   margin-bottom: 0.5em;
   margin-left: 1em;
   padding: 0.2em;
   float: right;
   clear: right;
}
.infobox td,
.infobox th {
   vertical-align: top;
}
.infobox caption {
   font-size: larger;
   margin-left: inherit;
}
.infobox.bordered {
   border-collapse: collapse;
}
.infobox.bordered td,
.infobox.bordered th {
   border: 1px solid #aaaaaa;
}
.infobox.bordered .borderless td,
.infobox.bordered .borderless th {
   border: 0;
}

.infobox.sisterproject {
   width: 20em;
   font-size: 90%;
}

/* Put a checker background at the image description page only visible if the image has transparent background */

#file img {background: url("http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5d/Checker-16x16.png") repeat;}

/* Support for Template:IPA, Template:Unicode and Template:Polytonic. The inherit declaration resets the font for all browsers except MSIE6.  The empty comment must remain. Please copy any changes to [[Template:IPA fonts]] and [[Template:Unicode fonts]]. */
.IPA {
        font-family: Chrysanthi Unicode, Doulos SIL, Gentium, GentiumAlt, Code2000, TITUS Cyberbit Basic, DejaVu Sans, Bitstream Vera Sans, Bitstream Cyberbit, Arial Unicode MS, Lucida Sans Unicode, Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro, Matrix Unicode;
        font-family /**/:inherit;
}
.Unicode {
        font-family: TITUS Cyberbit Basic, Code2000, Doulos SIL, Chrysanthi Unicode, Bitstream Cyberbit, Bitstream CyberBase, Bitstream Vera, Thryomanes, Gentium, GentiumAlt, Visual Geez Unicode, Lucida Grande, Arial Unicode MS, Microsoft Sans Serif, Lucida Sans Unicode;
        font-family /**/:inherit;
}
.polytonic {
        font-family: Athena, Gentium, Palatino Linotype, Arial Unicode MS, Lucida Sans Unicode, Lucida Grande, Code2000; 
        font-family /**/:inherit;
}

#wpSave {
  font-weight: bold;
}

/* hiddenStructure from Monobook - allows selective hiding of markup in templates */
.hiddenStructure {
   display: none;
   speak: none;
}

/* Removes underlines from links */
.nounderlines a { 
  text-decoration: none;
}

/* CSS for testing a new Main Page design, see [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Usability/Main Page]] */

#EnWpMainPage { width: 100%; margin-top: 1em; }
#EnWpMainPage h2 { font-size: 130%; font-weight: bold; margin: 0; padding: 0; border: 0; }
#EnWpMpMargin { margin-right: 13.8em; }
#EnWpMpCol1 { float: left; clear: left; width: 50%; }
#EnWpMpCol2 { width: 49.9%; float: left; }
#EnWpMpBrowse { background: #f8fcff url([url]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9f/MP-three-books.png[/url]) no-repeat 180% 9%; border: 1px solid #c7c7c7; }
#EnWpMpBrowseCats li { font-size: 85%; margin-left: 1em; line-height: 1.5; }
#EnWpMpBrowseCats h3 { font-size: 120%; margin: .2em 0 .1em -.8em; padding: 0; font-weight: normal; }
#EnWpMpBrowseCats h3 a { font-weight: bold; }
#EnWpMpBook { background-image: url([url]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7e/MP-open-book.png);[/url] }
#EnWpMpFeaturedPic { text-align: center; margin: 0 0 .5em; font-size: 85%; font-weight: bold; }
#EnWpMpFeaturedPic h2 { font-size: 145%; text-align: left; }
.EnWpMpBrowseRight { float: right; width: 12.7em; }
.EnWpMpBrowseBottom { margin: 1em 0; }
.EnWpMpBrowseBottom #EnWpMpBrowseCats li, .EnWpMpBrowseBottom #EnWpMpUsefulLinks, .EnWpMpBrowseBottom #EnWpMpFeaturedPic { float: left; width: 24%; margin: 0; line-height: normal; }
.EnWpMpBrowseBottom #EnWpMpBrowseCats h3 { margin-left: 0; }
#EnWpMpUsefulLinks { clear: left; }
#EnWpMpSearch { background: url([url]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/ae/MP-magnifying-glass.png[/url]) no-repeat top right; }
#EnWpMpSearch input { vertical-align: middle; }
#EnWpMpSearchInner { float: right; width: 20em; text-align: center; }
#bodySearchMP { margin: 0; padding: 0; }
#bodySearchMP .bodySearchWrap { float: right; width: 17.5em; text-align: left; padding: .8em 0; }
#bodySearchMP label { display: block; font-size: 95%; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: -.2em; }
#bodySearchMP .bodySearchBtnGo { font-weight: bold; padding-left: .3em; padding-right: .3em; margin-left: .5em; }
.EnWpMpContentBox { border: 1px solid; margin-bottom: .9em; }
#EnWpMpCol2 .EnWpMpContentBox { margin-left: .9em; }
.EnWpMpImage { float: right; margin: 0 0 .2em .2em; }
.EnWpMpImage img { position: relative; z-index: 3; }
#EnWpMpSisterProjects { float: left; width: 49%; }
.EnWpMpSisterProject { float: left; width: 17em; margin: 0; height: 5.5em; margin: 0; }
.EnWpMpSisterImg { float: left; width: 40px; height: 100%; }
#EnWpMpOtherLangs { margin-left: 50%; }
#EnWpMainPageNoCSS { display: none; }
#EnWpMpBook2 { background-image: url([url]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8e/MP-open-book2.png);[/url] }
#EnWpMpSearch2 { background: url([url]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3a/MP-magnifying-glass2.png[/url]) no-repeat top right; }

/* Custom link colors for use in [[MediaWiki:Edittools]] */
.charboxblack a:link, .charboxblack a:hover, .charboxblack a:visited, .charboxblack a:active { color: black; }
.charboxsilver a:link, .charboxsilver a:hover, .charboxsilver a:visited, .charboxsilver a:active { color: silver; }
.charboxgray a:link, .charboxgray a:hover, .charboxgray a:visited, .charboxgray a:active { color: gray; }
.charboxwhite a:link, .charboxwhite a:hover, .charboxwhite a:visited, .charboxwhite a:active { color: white; }
.charboxmaroon a:link, .charboxmaroon a:hover, .charboxmaroon a:visited, .charboxmaroon a:active { color: maroon; }
.charboxred a:link, .charboxred a:hover, .charboxred a:visited, .charboxred a:active { color: red; }
.charboxpurple a:link, .charboxpurple a:hover, .charboxpurple a:visited, .charboxpurple a:active { color: purple; }
.charboxfuchsia a:link, .charboxfuchsia a:hover, .charboxfuchsia a:visited, .charboxfuchsia a:active { color: fuchsia; }

.charboxgreen a:link, .charboxgreen a:hover, .charboxgreen a:visited, .charboxgreen a:active { color: green; }
.charboxlime a:link, .charboxlime a:hover, .charboxlime a:visited, .charboxlime a:active { color: lime; }
.charboxolive a:link, .charboxolive a:hover, .charboxolive a:visited, .charboxolive a:active { color: olive; }
.charboxyellow a:link, .charboxyellow a:hover, .charboxyellow a:visited, .charboxyellow a:active { color: yellow; }

.charboxnavy a:link, .charboxnavy a:hover, .charboxnavy a:visited, .charboxnavy a:active { color: navy; }
.charboxblue a:link, .charboxblue a:hover, .charboxblue a:visited, .charboxblue a:active { color: blue; }
.charboxteal a:link, .charboxteal a:hover, .charboxteal a:visited, .charboxteal a:active { color: teal; }
.charboxaqua a:link, .charboxaqua a:hover, .charboxaqua a:visited, .charboxaqua a:active { color: aqua; }

/* Pilot database table formatting, specifically for [[Database normalization]] but could be generalized */
table.database {border-bottom:1px solid #779;margin-bottom:1em;}
table.database caption {text-align:left;font-weight:bold;font-size:11pt;
  margin-left:0.4em;margin-top:1em;}
table.database th {background-color:#779;padding:0 0.6em;font-weight:bold;
  color:#FFF;}
table.database td {border-top:1px solid #779;padding:0 0.6em}

/* Removes useless links from printout */
@media print {
    #privacy, #about, #disclaimer {display:none;}
}
/*</nowiki></pre>*/

Code (markup):

/* Notice to Administrators!  Any changes to Monobook.css or Common.css should be first
proposed to [[Wikipedia:Village Pump]].  Furthermore, changes should be made in 
[[MediaWiki:Common.css]] rather than this page, unless there is no effect in 
[[MediaWiki:Common.css]].  Testing can be done on your own user Monobook.css.  Thank you. */

/*<pre><nowiki>*/

/* Donations link to be uncommented during fundraising drives  */
#siteNotice {
    margin-top:5px;
    padding-left: 4px;
    font-style: italic;
    text-align: center;
}

/*
#fundraising {
 text-align: center;
 border: 1px solid gray;
 padding: 5px;
}
*/

/****************************/
/* BEGIN LIGHT BLUE SECTION */
/****************************/
/* Make all non-namespace pages have a light blue content area. This is done by
   setting the background color for all #content areas to light blue and then
   overriding it for any #content enclosed in a .ns-0 (main namespace). I then
   do the same for the "tab" background colors. --Lupo */

#content {
    background: #F8FCFF; /* a light blue */
}

#content div.thumb {
    border-color: #F8FCFF;
}

.ns-0 * #content {
    background: white;
}

#mytabs li {
    background: #F8FCFF;
}

.ns-0 * #mytabs li {
    background: white;
}

#mytabs li a {
    background-color: #F8FCFF;
}

.ns-0 * #mytabs li a {
    background-color: white;
}

#p-cactions li a, #p-cactions li a:hover, #p-cactions li.selected a {
    background-color: #F8FCFF;
}

.ns-0 * #p-cactions li a {
    background-color: #fbfbfb;
}

.ns-0 * #p-cactions li.selected a, .ns-0 * #p-cactions li a:hover {
    background-color: white;
}

.ns-0 * #content div.thumb {
    border-color: white;
}

/**************************/
/* END LIGHT BLUE SECTION */
/**************************/

/* Display "From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia" */
#siteSub {
    display: inline;
    font-size: 92%;
    font-weight: normal;
}

#bodyContent #siteSub a {
    color: #000;
    text-decoration: none;
    background-color: transparent;
    background-image: none;
    padding-right: 0;
}

/* Bold 'edit this page' link to encourage newcomers */
#ca-edit a { font-weight: bold !important; }

/* Display "User $1, you are already logged in!"
   ([[MediaWiki:Alreadyloggedin]]) in red and bold */
div.alreadyloggedin { color: red; font-weight: bold; }

@media print {
    /* Do not print edit link in templates using Template:Ed
       Do not print certain classes that shouldn't appear on paper */
    .editlink, .noprint, .metadata, .dablink { display: none }
    #content { background: #FFFFFF; } /* white background on print */
}


/* Accessibility experiment: make diff changes not just colour-based */ 

.diffchange {
    font-weight: bold;
    background-color: inherit;
}

td.diff-addedline, td.diff-deletedline, td.diff-context {
    font-size: 85%;
    color: inherit;
}

#pt-login {
  font-weight: bold;
  font-size: 110%;
}

form#userlogin {
  float: left;
  padding: 1em 1em .7em 1em;
  background-color: #ffffe6;
  border: 2px solid #fc6;
  color: #000;
  margin-right: 2em;
}

form#userlogin table {
  float: left;
  background-color: #ffffe6;
  color: #000;
}

p.error {
  font-weight: bold;
}

.toccolours { 
   border:1px solid #aaaaaa;
   background-color:#f9f9f9;
   padding:5px;
   font-size: 95%;
}

/* Remove padding from external links displayed without icon */
#bodyContent .plainlinks a {padding: 0 !important}


#p-nav h5 {
   display: none;
}

.portlet a {
   text-decoration: none;
}

.portlet a:hover {
   text-decoration: underline;
}

#p-nav .pBody {
   padding-right: 0;
}

#p-nav a {
   display: block;
   width: 100%;
}

/* Special characters list below edit window works better without underlining */
#editpage-specialchars a { text-decoration: none; }
#editpage-specialchars a:hover { text-decoration: underline; }

/* If you don't want to see special characters list at all,
   put the following line in your User:You/monobook.css file
  (and remove the slash-asterisk comments) */
/* #editpage-specialchars { display: none; } */

/* Makes the background of a framed image white instead of gray. */
/* Only visible with transparent images. */
/* See #Framed_image_background_color */
div.thumb div a img {
    background-color:#ffffff;
}

/* To position the spoken article link at the top of page 
Commented out while sitenotice present */

#spoken {
  position: absolute;
  float: right;
  text-align: right;
  font-size: 90%;
  right: 0;
  z-index: 1;
  background: none;
  border-bottom-style: none;
  top: -2.2em;
  display: block !important;
}

/* try adding here, this had no effect in [[MediaWiki:Common.css]] */
.plainlinksneverexpand a.external.text:after {
 display: none !important
}

/* Standard Navigationsleisten, aka box hiding thingy from .de.*/

div.Boxmerge,
div.NavFrame {
        margin: 0px;
        padding: 2px;
        border: 1px solid #aaaaaa;
        text-align: center;
        border-collapse: collapse;
        font-size: 95%;
}
div.Boxmerge div.NavFrame {
        border-style: none;
        border-style: hidden;
}
div.NavFrame + div.NavFrame {
        border-top-style: none;
        border-top-style: hidden;
}
div.NavPic {
        background-color: #ffffff;
        margin: 0px;
        padding: 2px;
        float: left;
}
div.NavFrame div.NavHead {
        height: 1.6em;
        font-weight: bold;
        font-size: 100%;
        background-color: #efefef;
        position:relative;
}
div.NavFrame p {
        font-size: 100%;
}
div.NavFrame div.NavContent {
        font-size: 100%;
}
div.NavFrame div.NavContent p {
        font-size: 100%;
}
div.NavEnd {
        margin: 0px;
        padding: 0px;
        line-height: 1px;
        clear: both;
}
a.NavToggle {
        position:absolute;
        top:0px;
        right:3px;
        font-weight:normal;
        font-size:smaller;
}

#coordinates {  
 position:absolute;
 z-index:1;
 border:none;
 background:none;
 right:30px;
 top:3.7em;
 float:right;
 margin:0.0em;
 padding:0.0em;
 line-height:1.5em;
 text-align:right;
 text-indent:0;
 font-size:85%;
 text-transform:none;
 white-space:nowrap;
}

/*</nowiki></pre>*/

Code (markup):

 

thanks for the help exam