[X4U] Global change to menu font

silvo conticello silvoc at tiscali.it
Thu Feb 10 02:06:23 PST 2005


On 9 Feb 2005, at 23:43, John Baltutis wrote:
> On 02/09/05, Eddie Hargreaves <meged at earthlink.net> wrote:
>> There is no built-in way to change the menu font or size.
>> On 2/9/05 11:45 AM, John Newhoff <johnl at portagebay.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I think the default menu font in OS X is Lucida Grande 12 or 13
>>> point. Has anyone run across a way to change this? IIRC, you can do 
>>> it in terminal with these commands:
>
> defaults write -g NSSystemFont deiredFont
> defaults write -g NSSystemFontSize deiredFontSize
>
> where desiredFont is whatever you want (or leave it as is and 
> experiment
> with just changing the size). You may have to restart to make the 
> change.
>
> Open Terminal app and type in man defaults to get the particulars.

If you prefer the GUI, you can also you TinkerTool: it is extremely 
easy.

Silvo
Silvo Conticello
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