Those consequences can range from the relatively benign, like some characters being displayed incorrectly, to something more annoying, like apps refusing to load or functions not working quite as they used to. Fonts are more like plug-ins than you’d imagine, and because they’re loaded by macOS and the apps that run on it, a bad font can have some unexpected consequences.

The humble font isn’t as humble as you might think, especially on a Mac. His work has been published on Macworld, PCMag, 1Password’s blog, and other websites. The font should be removed.Oliver Haslam is a professional freelance writer with nearly ten years of experience. Now press Enter and enter your admin password (it will ask). It will add the path and name of the font to the command. Put a space after the -R, then drag and drop the bad font into the Terminal window. Enter the following line, or copy/paste it from here:ĭon't hit enter yet. Try replacing it again with an identically name file, or see if you can just delete from the Finder window.Ĥ) While still in Safe Mode, launch Terminal. When you do that, only certain fonts are allowed to load, which means the bad font will not be active. Tell it to replace the existing file.ģ) If you can't do number 2 because the system tells you it's in use, boot into Safe Mode (restart and hold down the Shift key). Then drag and drop the good (but deliberately misnamed) font into the folder containing the bad one. Give it the exact same name as the bad font.

The font will not be active and you may then be able to remove it.Ģ) Copy any good font to the desktop. Your main drive will then be just another data drive. Some things to try:ġ) If you have OS X installed on another drive (I always have an external with OS X on it for emergency booting), start up to that drive. That alone may make it difficult to remove. Disabling won't help when it's so bad the Finder won't even let you touch it.

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