How come some fonts that I download only show up as question mark symbols when I install them onto my computer? It seems like all the fonts I really want to use don't actually work, and I'm wondering if there's simply something I'm not doing correctly. I hope someone is able to help.

You should tell us which fonts you're talking about. Otherwise it will be difficult to help you.

Hi Im also having this problem with the social shapes. I'm using coreldraw X7

Depending on the software you use, if you type letters that are not part of a font, you will see those letters in a fallback font or you will see a special glyph (.notdef) that comes with the font. You can use a font manager to inspect what characters and glyphs reside in a font.



If you want to test OpenType layout features then you have to use an advanced font manager like MainType.



MainType has a free edition:
https://www.high-logic.com/font-manager/maintype