# Font characters displayed as squares in some applications in RL9.1

**URL:** <https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/font-characters-displayed-as-squares-in-some-applications-in-rl9-1/8897>\
**Category:** Rocky Linux Help & Support\
**Created:** [February 14, 2023, 9:43am UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/font-characters-displayed-as-squares-in-some-applications-in-rl9-1/8897 "2023-02-14T09:43:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![lllcky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bc79bd/32.png) [@lllcky](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/lllcky)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2023, 9:43am UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/font-characters-displayed-as-squares-in-some-applications-in-rl9-1/8897/1 "2023-02-14T09:43:02Z")

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After an update I see that font characters displayed as squares in some applications. How I can fix it?

 ![Screenshot from 2023-02-14 12-40-22](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/rockylinux/original/2X/5/565167fe03eb5286cd479faa2bba10e14a1a5dfa.png)  
 ![Screenshot from 2023-02-14 12-41-16](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/rockylinux/original/2X/1/19d61cc72f02736272f7fb08d519c0333a2b4295.png)

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**Author:** ![iwalker](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forums.rockylinux.org/iwalker/32/2599_2.png) [@iwalker](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/iwalker)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2023, 9:46am UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/font-characters-displayed-as-squares-in-some-applications-in-rl9-1/8897/2 "2023-02-14T09:46:06Z")

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Did you try logging out and back in again? Sometimes the updating of fonts would require this.

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**Author:** ![lllcky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bc79bd/32.png) [@lllcky](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/lllcky)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2023, 9:49am UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/font-characters-displayed-as-squares-in-some-applications-in-rl9-1/8897/3 "2023-02-14T09:49:20Z")

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Yes. Unfortunately this didn’t help.

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**Author:** ![lllcky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bc79bd/32.png) [@lllcky](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/lllcky)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2023, 1:05pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/font-characters-displayed-as-squares-in-some-applications-in-rl9-1/8897/4 "2023-02-14T13:05:24Z")

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The solution is the replacing the default Cantarella font with another one in the Tweaks extension. 🙃

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**Author:** ![brian](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forums.rockylinux.org/brian/32/5777_2.png) [@brian](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/brian)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2023, 3:25am UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/font-characters-displayed-as-squares-in-some-applications-in-rl9-1/8897/5 "2023-08-25T03:25:06Z")

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