macbook pro 2019: text garbled on Google Chrome preferences and others
This is a font issue, causing characters to be shifted by one (somehow!).
Uninstall Roboto from your system.
Source:

https://www.reddit.com/r/chrome/comments/ki7qss/strange_text_showing_in_chrome_started_after/
https://support.google.com/chrome/thread/86605680?hl=en