On May 13, 2013, at 6:32 PM, Jens Alfke wrote:

> 
> On May 13, 2013, at 2:23 PM, Fritz Anderson <fri...@manoverboard.org> wrote:
> 
>>> Look and feel wise its equivalent to "Lucida Grande". And also both the 
>>> fonts is taking the equal size for the same text.
>> 
>> If it's that "equivalent," then there's no value to you in hacking AppKit to 
>> defeat its font handling.
> 
> Exactly. If you can’t tell the difference, why go to the trouble of doing it?
> 
> Maybe I’m a font geek, but I can easily tell the difference, and Lucida is a 
> better-looking font than Trebuchet (which has some intentional weirdnesses 
> that call attention to itself; not what you want in a system font.)

Well, I'm sure he was considering using something reasonable - like Comic Sans.
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