SOLVED: MacOS: UI font seems to be missing

Mac M3pro here, low experience user, a build from 2021 opens and works great but both the latest 2023 builds can’t seem find the display font for most of the program (making the builds unusable) Even though the font it’s looking for, Verdana, is in the folder where it’s looking,
it’s not finding it (error reported in textport) . Sonoma 14.2.1

I fixed this problem. I went into Mac OS font book and used “resolve duplicates” which deactivated the .ttf version of the Verdana font.

Yes, this was the problem. I deleted/resolved duplicate fonts and I’m good to go! Thank you!