Wrong Fonts in Safari

Hi
How do you reset safari to make it display default fonts. For some reason when I started it today it started to use some weird fonts for some of the text on some websites (dont know what the fonts are).
I have tried the rested command from the Safari menu and it did not help.
Steve
Powerbook 1.5   Mac OS X (10.4.5)  

Steve,
Although you can go to Safari>Preferences...>Appearance or Advanced to make font changes, I would recommend that you first check out Font Management in Mac OS X Tiger and Panther, by Kurt Lang.
;~)

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