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substitute system font?
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Join Date: Aug 2002
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Are you using a substitute system font to replace Lucida Grande? Which one?
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Do a search on these forums for "Silk"..... 
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I know you can do it with Silk, my question is which font are you using that works well with the system, just curious.
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There's a couple of threads concerning Silk that deal mainly with what fonts work best and what are some favorites.....that's why I said to search.....
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Join Date: Apr 2003
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Myriad Web works fine for me...
And there is this strange addiction to Handel Gothic Light by a few people here 
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Originally posted by FB Eye:
And there is this strange addiction to Handel Gothic Light by a few people here
I switched........ 
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Yes i can't stop using handel gothic font light its sooo cool!
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DJ switched. HEY EVRYONE ITS TIME TO CHANGE.
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Originally posted by Dodgy77:
DJ switched. HEY EVRYONE ITS TIME TO CHANGE.
Is he about to reveal his latest (from his Icons thread) ?
I've been trying BlairMdITC, Copperplate, Dev Gothic. None look good IMHO.
My favorite still : Eurostile.
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Join Date: Dec 2002
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I have used so far
Bank Gothic
Bottix
Century Gothic
Din Neuzeit Grotesk
Flux (current choice)
Futura (one of the only ones ive used that enboldens the application Menu)
of the above I think my favorite was Futura, just because I like the cut of the font and the circlularness of the O. I personally steer clear of serif fonts too as I think they look awful as system fonts, handwritten ones can be disasterous too
notice No Handel Gothic.... I MUST RESIST !!
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...ill get my coat
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Join Date: Aug 2004
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my problem with fonts is finding how to get good settings in Silk to make them work right. every font i try seems to mess with more than i expected.
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Originally posted by renpar61:
Are you using a substitute system font to replace Lucida Grande? Which one?
Existing thread : People's favorites
But I guess it never hurts to ask again after a while, as we've seen DJ switch
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Junior Member
Join Date: Aug 2004
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Originally posted by renpar61:
Are you using a substitute system font to replace Lucida Grande? Which one?
To be honest, no other font than Lucida Grande looks acceptable to me, and i have to add that Lucida Grande is still FAR from perfect IHMO. Small sizes look inacceptably blurry, the hinting sucks. When switching off smoothing for sizes below (e.g.)10 point the resulting bitmaps suck too - so that's no option.
This is bc. Apple has optimized the Lucida Grande font esp. for the Finder/ X, other stock fonts like Handel Gothic, Helvetica or whatever might look good in certain areas of X while they suck bad in other. It's a miracle to me how can some of you stand the blurry rendering of hacked in (silk'ed) fonts. I guess you're used to blurry fonts...
too bad, unless apple beefes up its sparse font-preferences in X/Finder we have to live with it.
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I don't know about you, Smithz, but I can feel myself slowly going blind when working in OS X. Text rendering is worse than OS 9. That's hardly news. What's shocking is that it's far worse than Windows.
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thalo.net
As sharp as it gets.
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Forum Regular
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Now Brad, you know that's not the reason you're going blind...
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Handel isn't showing up in Silk for me... can anyone help?
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Mar 2003
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Originally posted by TheSpaz:
Handel isn't showing up in Silk for me... can anyone help?
Close System Preferences
Open the Terminal
Paste the following, then hit Return: defaults remove com.unsanity.Silk "Font Cache"
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Senior User
Join Date: Jan 2002
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Originally posted by digitaljames:
Close System Preferences
Open the Terminal
Paste the following, then hit Return: defaults remove com.unsanity.Silk "Font Cache"
That prolly was the best Silk help thread out.. Man You and I (Mostly you) paved the way for the current users of Silk.. Gosh, and having Rosyna helping out to was a sweet bonus.. That was like what 2 or 3 months ago... Lots of awesome tips in that thread for fonts and Silk...
[insert virtual high-five here]
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Forum Regular
Join Date: Sep 2000
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Originally posted by Craig R. Arko:
Now Brad, you know that's not the reason you're going blind...
LOL, Craig. Right you are.
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