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Fonts not displaying correctly

i am issues with fonts not displaying correctly. Some of my system fonts are not displaying correctly, the characters show up as boxes with an X in them. These look to be system fonts. How do I fix this issue?

iMac 21.5″, macOS 11.1

Posted on Sep 15, 2022 7:35 AM

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Posted on Sep 15, 2022 8:00 AM

First thing to try is to go to the Font Book app and do File > Restore Standard Fonts and restart.


If that doesn't help, post a screen shot here of what you are seeing, using an Apple app to display the problem font.

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Sep 16, 2022 10:05 AM in response to Tom Gewecke

I did do the File > Restore Standard Fonts in Font Book as suggested, but that did not work.


I got the fonts to display correctly. I had a backup of all my fonts on a CD from many years ago. I replaced my fonts with a copy of these backup fonts and everything looks good now. I also did the File > Restore Standard Fonts in Font Book again to clear out any old fonts being used.


Thank you for the help.



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