Did you install the Japanese keyboard recently? It comes with a font for kanji and kana that appears a lot bolder than before.
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Hehe, that’s what I just asked; Japanese IME == Japanese Keyboard ^-^
Oops, sorry. Since I didn’t pick up on it I think they also have a good chance to miss it.
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Hi, I’ve had the Japanese keyboard/IME installed for about a year and this only started yesterday :/. Plus vocab is still visible so not sure if that’s it
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Thanks, if you mean the browsing cache from chrome yeah I did try this but no luck
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Hmm odd, I experienced the exact same thing (it took a while for the vocabulary to update) but this was within a day of the font being installed.
It takes a while but you’ll get used to it.
Edit: Oh I thought you’re the other guy, the reply wasn’t meant for you.
Hey! Sorry to see that. Very odd indeed. We’ve had some other users who have have issues with Chrome recently. We’re wondering if it’s because of the latest update last week. Email us at hello@wanikani.com and we’ll have our devs take a look at it.
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Yeah, that’s exactly what happened. Never thought this would have impact on website fonts, thanks (and also thMike) for pointing that out 
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No worries!
There’s a list of fonts that the framework WaniKani uses to display characters from, which are in order of priority. I think @Kumirei posted it, but I can’t find it now. Regardless, if you put a font on the system (such as the one the IME uses) then if it’s higher on the list, it’ll switch to that one. At least, I believe that’s how it works.
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If you don’t have it already, our team suggests installing Source Hans Sans: GitHub - adobe-fonts/source-han-sans at release
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Don’t think I ever did, but I guess I can do it now
Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro
Meiryo
Source Han Sans Japanese
NotoSansCJK
TakaoPGothic
Yu Gothic
ヒラギノ角ゴ Pro W3
メイリオ
Osaka
MS PGothic
ＭＳ Ｐゴシック
Noto Sans JP
sans-serif
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Hmm, I misremembered, but somebody definitely posted it and you’re usually the one with all the useful information, so I naturally thought it was you 
On the plus side, the next time I claim that it will be true 
Edit: I searched for a font name and found that it was @sornvru, hehe
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Hey everyone thanks for the help! However it seems the crabigator has decided to take mercy on me. The problem is randomly gone and I have absolutely no idea why! I just started a batch and everything was fine again! (After 2 days 
) I haven’t even closed the browser since it last happened, so I don’t even know if it was chrome’s fault…
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Oh hey there. Website fonts are one of those things that nobody except the website creators usually care about, because most fonts are either ones basically everyone has, or included in the website itself, but sometimes weird things like this can come up, because WaniKani does not include their fonts in the website.
Hiragino is included on Mac and iOS devices, but if you’re using anything else, it’s possible some things may not display the intended way unless you go out and find the font for yourself and install it on your computer. You can consider that the “proper” look of all the kanji on WaniKani, if that matters to you at all.
Here’s my original post for reference:
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Do you know how to set on of those fonts as default? If I search on Windows directly, the only option I get is uninstalling/deactivating a font (and as I tried it with those that are only bold, Windows told me that they were protected and can’t be uninstalled). Within the browser I also got no option to change a japanese font (only the serif, sans-serif, …).
I tried to uninstall the language package/IME Japanese keyboard layout but I guess the font is still installed,since the kanji are still bold enough to fill my entire screen (little exaggeration here but who would ever want to have them displayed like that…^^)
Thank you for your time
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Basically, your browser will look on your computer for the fonts, starting at the top. If it doesn’t find the first one, it will keep going down the list until it finds a match.
The fonts are set by the website. The only control you have is what fonts are on your computer. If you want the fonts in the list, you will have to hunt them down yourself and install them on your computer. I’m not sure if Yu Gothic is a default in Windows 10 or through the Google IME, but that’s the one I first had without grabbing the fonts myself.
If you follow these directions and install Source Hans Sans, it will be the new font on WK, unless you have Meiryo or Hiragino:
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I do have Meiryo as well as SHS (so as I understood Meiryo is the one thats being used, since I dont have Hiragino installed). The display is still heavy-bold. Maybe I am overthinking things 
For the non-germans: the “Deinstallieren” button right beneath the installation path translates to “uninstall”, so I should be able to use it?.
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Hiragino is similarly bold, so that is the intended look. Yu Gothic is probably the main font if you want something thin. You could make a small user script if you want to override the font order.
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By now I installed (in order)
Yu Gothic 1st
Meiryo 2nd
SHS 3rd
Hiragino 4th
but none of them made any difference. It feels like my problem is somehow different.
I don’t get what overwrites any of these fonts, as I dont have this "problem"in Kaniwani, Bunpro or Kamesame (although they may handle fonts differently) 
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