Blocky Fonts

I'm new to Livetype and i have several fonts listed in the Font tab, the preview text for which looks blocky and pixelated. Examples are ceriph, copy, header, and some others. They all have numbers after the name like 8_65, 8_66, 17_67, etc.
What's wrong with these?

ceriph, copy, header,
Sorry, never heard of them.
But they sound like they came with some oddball application, games, maybe.
Open FontBook and disable or delete them.
bogiesn

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