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
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.
Boot into the Recovery volume (boot with the Command + R keys held down - Intel Macs) or (How to Boot an M1 Mac into Recovery Mode) and reinstall the system. That will also reinstall all fonts and link them as required.
Can you p;rovide an example from an Apple app like Mail, Safari, Message, TextEdit, Pages? MS apps have their own forums/support elsewhere.
Did you do File > Restore Standard Fonts in Font Book as suggested earlier?
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.
this is in Excel
First thing is the user profile accurate iMac 21.5″, macOS 11.1 << ------ >> Mar 17, 2021 Big Sur macOS 11.1 ( 20C69 )
The current version of Big Sur is version 11.7
11.1 is what I am using currently.
Fonts not displaying correctly
