STstriking·Jul 2, 2015Submission
Set 'Lucida Grande' as System Font on OS X Yosemite
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An Automator/Apple-script to use 'Lucida Grande' as system font on OS X Yosemite
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| Nov 2014 | 2014-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| Dec 2014 | 2014-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 2015 | 2015-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 2015 | 2015-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 2015 | 2015-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 2015 | 2015-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 2015 | 2015-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 2015 | 2015-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
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4 sourcesA few of my favorites:
Bartender: http://www.macbartender.com
Custom Menu: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/custommenu/id572551593?ls=1&...
Shade: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/shade/id546881298?mt=12
Add spaces to Dock (to group apps): http://css-tricks.com/snippets/html/add-spaces-to-dock-in-os...
Lucida Grande for Yosemite: https://github.com/schreiberstein/lucidagrandeyosemite
Do a search for Mac Kung Fu.
Just in general you want to turn off as many animations and magnification effects as possible in System Preferences to keep everything as quick as possible.
In Ask HN: Best OS X Tweaks, Add-ons, Plugins, Etc.?I might not be in the majority, but I actually like the new system font Helvetica Neue. I am a huge fan of it and on a Retina Display it makes so much sense. Understandably those who do not have the luxury of a Retina Display, I can understand the frustration, but having said that, I think the whole system font change thing has been blown out of proportion.
Even though I like Helvetica Neue, I really dig the new San Francisco font, it is a pretty nice alternative that seems to work pretty well for those who are using a non-Retina Display. If you want to bring back Lucida Grande, this Github repository has a handy script that will do that for you (some work colleagues of mine, designers mainly did it to bring back the old font): https://github.com/schreiberstein/lucidagrandeyosemite
In San Francisco system font replacement for YosemiteI think you might be able to do that with this: https://github.com/schreiberstein/lucidagrandeyosemite
In San Francisco system font replacement for Yosemite