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<blockquote data-quote="Lifeisabeach" data-source="post: 1613264" data-attributes="member: 38864">Actually I was thinking some text items for me looked fuzzy yesterday.&nbsp; I'm staring more closely now at the various UI elements to figure out why, and it looks like part of the problem may be the BOLD variant of Helvetica Neue.&nbsp; For example, in my menubar, the name of the open app is a bit fuzzy.&nbsp; And yes chas, I know you are a robot with 20/.3 vision, but to a mere mortal like me, the text in the menubar from your screen cap is a tad fuzzy.&nbsp; Maybe &quot;fuzzy&quot; isn't quite the right word, but the letters are too fat and tight together.&nbsp; And looking over on my Desktop, the text labels appear to have a slight drop shadow, adding to the impression of fuzziness.&nbsp; I suspect that Helvetica Neue may be a font that you'd get the best of from a Retina display, but not so much on regular ones.If anyone is feeling gutsy, maybe the system font can be changed.&nbsp; I see what I &quot;think&quot; is the font being used by the system.&nbsp; The file is HelveticaNeueUI.ttc and it's in /System/Library/Private/Frameworks/ProKit.framework/Versions/A/Resources.&nbsp; If the same file format was used in Mavericks, maybe the old could be renamed and plopped in place of the new one in Mavericks.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lifeisabeach, post: 1613264, member: 38864"] Actually I was thinking some text items for me looked fuzzy yesterday. I'm staring more closely now at the various UI elements to figure out why, and it looks like part of the problem may be the [B]BOLD[/B] variant of Helvetica Neue. For example, in my menubar, the name of the open app is a bit fuzzy. And yes chas, I know you are a robot with 20/.3 vision, but to a mere mortal like me, the text in the menubar from your screen cap is a tad fuzzy. Maybe "fuzzy" isn't quite the right word, but the letters are too fat and tight together. And looking over on my Desktop, the text labels appear to have a slight drop shadow, adding to the impression of fuzziness. I suspect that Helvetica Neue may be a font that you'd get the best of from a Retina display, but not so much on regular ones. If anyone is feeling gutsy, maybe the system font can be changed. I see what I "think" is the font being used by the system. The file is HelveticaNeueUI.ttc and it's in [B][I]/System/Library/Private/Frameworks/ProKit.framework/Versions/A/Resources[/I][/B]. If the same file format was used in Mavericks, maybe the old could be renamed and plopped in place of the new one in Mavericks. [/QUOTE]

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