Geeky for Helvetica
Friday, November 23, 2007
A bit of nerdiness this afternoon: before Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) arrived, I predicted that it would feature one radical change to its interface: a change from the Lucida Grande system font (used for menus and interface elements) to Helvetica. I based this on two things: first, the beautiful iPhone interface; second, on the strange inclusion of Helvetica as the interface font for some disparate pieces of the beta version of Leopard.Well, the release version arrived, and Lucida Grande is still with us -- but so is Helvetica in the odd spot here and there, looking for all the world as if a change was supposed to have been made but was omitted for some reason.
Today, using the freeware Tinker Tool app, I changed all occurrences of Lucida Grande in my system to Helvetica. Surprise! It looks right. Like it was meant to be. I still say that the interface is going to change to Helvetica, but I can't imagine now that it will happen in a point release. Perhaps in 10.6, two years from now? I also still say that they meant to change it this time around. The use of Helvetica in the new features (Stacks, iCal, Time Machine, etc.) obviously points to a plan to change the system font.
Take a look at these screen shots and tell me: doesn't it just look right?
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