Safari suddenly displaying pages in a strange font

There are 3 users on my system and this is just affecting me. When I go to any web page what would normally be shown in a normal font has been changed to an almost unreadable one. It's not all the text on the page, and some pages are a lot worse than others (some look completely normal). Nothing has been changed in safari's preferences - I still have ordinary fonts for the standard and fixed width font. This must have something to do with installing a few new fonts into font book to have a look at and then deleting them again. But I can't understand how one could end up affecting the way safari shows a page? I've cleaned the font caches. Tried a restart - nothing helps. It has to be a local change as my other two users are unaffected. Any ideas?

Problem solved! It turned out to be an errant font that I'd installed but which hadn't shown up in Font book called 'mech'. I hadn't thought any more about it yet somehow had begun to interfere with the text of a web page. After looking in the font folder I discovered it was in there and when I went to delete it I was told it was still in use. Quit safari, deleted the file, relaunched and everything back to normal. Can't explain why it was able to alter safari though.

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