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MacOS Big Sur. Problems with typography

MacBook Pro 2014 MacOS Big Sur. Problems with typography, sometimes appear ????? inside squares instead of letters. Is there anyone who knows how to resolve this?

MacBook Pro 15″, macOS 11.7

Posted on Jun 12, 2025 4:16 AM

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g_wolfman

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Posted on Jun 12, 2025 6:21 PM

You should be able to reset Apple Type System (the font registry) from Font Book. If not, you can do the same thing from the command line in Terminal (generally caches shouldn't be cleared - but obvious issues with the font registry like ? appearing in places of the glyphs is an execption).

atsutil databases -remove

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g_wolfman

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Jun 12, 2025 6:21 PM in response to kimbo4591

atsutil databases -remove

Tom Gewecke

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Jun 12, 2025 9:01 AM in response to kimbo4591

Go to the Font Book app and check the settings for a place where you can Reset All Fonts or something similar

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