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From mailing list: > - fonts in NetBeans are too big comparing to default Mac fonts Actually, we went back and forth on this. In 3.6 we used small fonts (basically we used the same font sizes we use on other platforms). In 4.0 we switched them to be consistent with Finder and other Mac apps (there was a bug report on this somewhere). There seem to be two different approaches to font size in Macintosh apps - some use the same sizes Finder uses (large, like we use in NetBeans today), and some apps that have more text content use smaller fonts (iTunes, XCode). Probably we're not going to make everyone happy. I wouldn't object to changing it, just letting you know the history.
We would also like to see the font size tweaked for Mac OS. The current editor font is rather ugly and the font size in the UI overall is larger than fonts used in other Mac OS elements. Our development team find the following settings optimal on the Mac: * Preferences... | Fonts & Colors | Syntax | Default Font | Monaco 11 (this is the same as the default font in TextMate) * Show Package Contents on the NetBeans app bundle. * Go to: Content | Resources | NetBeans | etc | netbeans.conf. * Edit the "netbeans_default_options" variable by adding the following text to the end of it " --fontsize 11". * Restart NetBeans We've been using the Monaco 11pt font for a while in both NetBeans 6.9 and 7.0RC1 and it works well. It is also more readable and conserves space. Please can you consider making these settings default as it's a bit of a pain having to edit the netbeans.conf file every upgrade and I think that other developers will like the cleaner look.
Please reopen if this issue is still valid, thanks.