Subject: Re: [Witch Talk] over-bold fonts

From: Rob Griffiths <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 06:30:10 -0700

On Mar 30, 2012, at 12:50 AM, mick angel wrote:

> Is there a plist way to control the font weight (boldness)? The recent
> update has made the font seem very 'fat' and I miss the older, more
> streamlined version.

Basically, here's what happened...When you compile an app, you compile for a certain version of OS X. Up to Witch 3.7, we compiled for OS X 10.5, which yielded the font we all knew and loved.

After switching to Xcode 4, 10.6 is the minimum OS X version we can compile for, because Apple dropped support for 10.5 in Xcode 4. And compiling for 10.6 on Xcode 4 gives us a differenty looking font when we request the bold system font of a certain size. That's what we can see and thus describe, but we have no idea what exactly changed internally.

To fix the problem, we have two solutions, a short-term fix, and a long-term fix. In the short term, you can use Terminal to switch to a font that's somewhat more representative of the old one. Quit Witch, open Terminal, and run this command:

defaults write ~/Library/Application\ Support/Witch/Settings "Alternate Panel Font" -bool YES

Relaunch Witch, and you should have a somewhat less obnoxious font. But it's still not ideal, so an upcoming Witch release (this is the long term fix) will allow you to choose any font you like for the panel.

regards,
-rob.

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From: mick angel <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 00:50:58 -0700 (PDT)

Hello,

Regards,

Mick.