Blurry font

Hello All,
I can't seem to get by fonts to go back to the normal view that it had until a few hours ago. My "Zoom" is off in System Preferences, and I can't figure out why these fonts are so light (also true when viewing Safari, PDFs, Word, etc). Thanks.
Processor 2.66 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
Memory 8 GB 1067 MHz DDR3
Graphics NVIDIA GeForce 9400 256 MB
Software Mac OS X Lion 10.7.2 (11C74)
iMac 20-inch, Early 2009

Possibly duplicate or corrupted fonts causing this...
Troubleshooting help here > Font problems and management in OS X | MacFixIt - CNET Reviews

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xfsettingsd: Another instance took over. Leaving...
TIA
Last edited by CTheGreatDevaluation (2012-12-07 17:50:59)

theDOC wrote:
I have problems with freetype2-git-infinality, too, so I installed stable + fontconfig-infinality-git to get rid of the fontconfig warnings:
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