Unsanity has really done it this time!

Here's another shot with a better font!

Does it allow you to change fonts or something?

Yeah, the fonts! The fonts are changed! They figured out a way to change the fonts in OSX! Finally! The fonts!

You say it's Alpha2 - but the version on the site is 1.1... are you using a prerelease internal beta version or can we expect this neat font stuff with 1.1? I'm very excited (man, I hate Lucida Grand)...

this alpha version does not appear on their web site. it it a public-beta, so we can use it? if so where can we get it?

I installed 1.1 and about the only thing it does is control font smoothing. I must have this system-level font control! Bwahahahahaha! So what's the deal? Any indication as to when Unsanity will release this most excellent haxie?

I got it by following his link

http://www.unsanity.org/rosyna/silk...warning.dmg.sit

Yeah, that's what I put the link for.... I guess I should have made it more clear!
That's the correct direct download link....
http://www.unsanity.org/rosyna/silk...warning.dmg.sit

I finally got my favorite font in the system like I had in OS9 with a hack called AppearanceHopper. It's called Century Gothic. I had to copy it over from my OS9 System/Fonts/ folder into my ~/Library/Fonts folder to make OSX see it. I love this stuff. See!

Any indication when the final will be released?

UNSANITY RULES !!!
They get all the nifty OS X haxies for us ...
I'll send you a case of beer.

i downloaded it but i still dont know how to change the main system font.

any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Me neither.
It's kinda confusing.

I think it's a great that Unsanity has figured out font subsititution. That is one of the holy grails of customization that people have been trying to find since the beginning.

However, I'm not particularly interested in switching to the Silk theme to get this functionality. Am I completely missing the boat here? I downloaded the installer, but to me it seems like I'm about to install the Silk theme. I'm way too in lust with Watercolor to change over to Silk.

However, I want to be able to change my System Fonts in the worst possible way. I hate the System Font that Apple forces us to use.

Before I install anything here, does anyone here know if you can continue using the theme of *MY* choice, but still get the font subsititution functionality?

Thanks!

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tojo

Silk is not a theme, it's a prefence pane to control fonts. You can use it with any theme.

Go to the Silk pref pane and to the third tab, and set the 'Original Font' to Lucida Grande and the 'Replace With Font' to whatever font you'd like to see. Don't start checking those two little boxes below or some apps won't work.... expecially Chimera.
Then you have to restart the each app to see the font in the menubar and the app, or just restart the whole computer. And I think you have to have Unsanity's .ape thing installed too, but probably most people that are messing around with this already do.

what he ment to say is change lucida grande with the font called florida(if you dont have it message me at mpinbwzrd and i will send it to you) cause that font kicks all other fonts ass's's's's!?!

The only problem is that it spits a bunch of crap into console. It gets really annoying when I have turned of that logging option. I hope the final doesn't do this.

I really dig this!
It makes me like OSX much more without having to use Lucida Grande. But it messes up kerning in some instances and some apps( Widget.app ) dont use English anymore!! ??
Not enough to make me go back to Lucida though.

This haxie is great. I replaced Lucida Grande with Erik Spiekerman's great font: Meta.
As warned, this release is rather buggy though, i hope they release the final version soon, since i'm not at all planing to go back to Lucida.

I hope that in the final version the app name in the menu bar would be rendered in bold as it's done with Lucida Grande by default.

I've always liked Lucida, even before OS X. But it's nice that there is a choice out there for people who don't.

This needs to be standard in the OS IMHO.

I think it's great that Unsanity adds features that should have been there from the beginning. Although I could not get Silk to work that well, it would not replace the fonts in System Preferences for example. But the Finder was totally changed. Am I doing something wrong..?

I hope that this is just associated with it being a beta still, system prefs font wouldnt change for me either.

You guys are getting ahead of yourselves! It's not a beta yet! It's an alpha! I think it works pretty well considering that so I have HIGH hopes for the final!

Carbon and Cocoa. I guess they just don't have it working in Cocoa fully.

Ok, it's still in alpha, but it's pretty useless unless it can change ALL fonts. But as said, it will probably be fixed in the final.

Just to clear up the slight bit of confusion that seems to exist,

• Silk is an Unsanity Haxie.
• It requires APE and a reboot to run.
• It is still alpha quality, meaning that it is not yet feature complete and is sure to have bugs.
• Rosyna's post describing Alpha 1 is here.
• Her post describing Alpha 2 is here.
• These two posts detail the known problems.
• This program is already really, really cool!

Ya'll should email me with your problems (and screenshots help!) And also, please read the read me for known problems.

Wow! Glad to see you on this forum Rosyna!!!!! How's it going with the Silk! Any idea when it will be ready for a final release? Or at least beta? What's your email address anyway for the bug reports?

rosyna at unsanity.com

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