Strange ? icon in MacOS Sierra in dropdown

Question

I have a strange minor error. Im using MacOS Sierra, and in many situations, regardless of app, say in drop-downs, say in Calendar, I get a question mark appear near the selected item. If I was in reminders it would be there as well.. This happened over the past week or so.

Maybe it's a font issue, I'm not sure but I wouldn't have a clue as to how to approach this. I don't have any functionality issues or anything else, just that the circle that should be in lieu of that question mark is not showing.

Any guidance would be super awesome.

Answer 1

There is a similar question on apple.stackexchange.com: Check mark disappeared from dropdowns. According to the accepted answer by user grgarside, this issue can be fixed by:

• Opening Font Book.app and choosing File → Restore Standard Fonts. It might be necessary to reboot

I had the same issue and this fixed it for me.

According to this comment by user bosmacs, it might also be necessary to rebuild the font cache with the following command: sudo atsutil databases -remove