Font problem in Safari

Some pages in Safari show up as gibberish. This started happening after I cleaned out my font library. I tried re-installing the system but I'm having the same problem. Anyone have any ideas?
Thanks.

I had loaded way too many fonts and it was slowing my apps so I decided to delete the ones I rarely use. I don't know if I deleted a system font or I just have corrupted fonts. I re-installed my OS hoping it would fix it but it hasn't. I also checked my other computer, which is working fine, and copied the fonts and added the missing ones to my problem computer. I also tried cleaning my font cache with Font Finagler. I'm still having issues. I can e-mail you a screenshot of a problem page if that would help.
Thanks.

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