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Re: Replace system fonts in Yosemite - updated Contrast, iTunes issue

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On 2014-08-07 13:26:26 +0000, Lloyd  E Parsons said:

> Being of the stubborn version of person, I decided that since Apple 
> thinks they need a new upgraded OS with shitty fonts that certainly 
> someone figgered out a way to replace them.
> 
> So I reinstalled Yosemite beta and then found this :
> https://github.com/jenskutilek/FiraSystemFontReplacement
> 
> Looks better and is on a per user basis, simple to implement too!!
> 
> Give it a whirl and see what you think.
> 
> Now I need to figger out some contrasty coloring!

I've been playing around with this all morning.  Finally found areas 
that can be changed to make Yosemite tolerable if not excellent in 
Accessibility inside the System Preferences on non-retina displays.

Changed Display Contrast a bit and things got much better.  Played with 
the desktop backgrounds and found a few that make things much more to 
my liking.

I also tried 'reduced transparency' but found that looks better to me 
with that not selected after I changed the Display Contrast, same goes 
for the 'increase contrast' checkbox.  Unchecked looks better to me.

One thing I did find out was with iTunes.  Once you go to Yosemite and 
get the iTunes 12 beta, the library .itl file gets changed and will not 
work with iTunes 11.x.  For those that have their iTunes library on the 
same drive as everything else and did a clone backup, that won't be an 
issue.  In my case it was as my iTunes library is on the drive attached 
to my TimeCapsule.

-- 
Lloyd

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Replace system fonts in Yosemite Lloyd  E Parsons <lloydp21@live.com> - 2014-08-07 08:26 -0500
  Re: Replace system fonts in Yosemite - updated Contrast, iTunes issue Lloyd  E Parsons <lloydp21@live.com> - 2014-08-07 10:37 -0500
  Re: Replace system fonts in Yosemite me@home.spamsucks.ca (Király) - 2014-08-07 16:03 +0000
    Re: Replace system fonts in Yosemite nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-08-07 12:35 -0400
      Re: Replace system fonts in Yosemite Lloyd  E Parsons <lloydp21@live.com> - 2014-08-07 12:08 -0500
        Re: Replace system fonts in Yosemite Lloyd  E Parsons <lloydp21@live.com> - 2014-08-07 12:19 -0500
          Re: Replace system fonts in Yosemite nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-08-07 13:42 -0400
          Re: Replace system fonts in Yosemite Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2014-08-08 09:05 +1200
            Re: Replace system fonts in Yosemite Lloyd Parsons <lloydp21@live.com> - 2014-08-07 16:49 -0500
        Re: Replace system fonts in Yosemite nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-08-07 13:42 -0400
      Re: Replace system fonts in Yosemite me@home.spamsucks.ca (Király) - 2014-08-08 18:45 +0000
    Re: Replace system fonts in Yosemite Kevin McMurtrie <mcmurtrie@pixelmemory.us> - 2014-08-07 20:50 -0700
      Re: Replace system fonts in Yosemite Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2014-08-08 16:20 +1200
        Re: Replace system fonts in Yosemite Lloyd  E Parsons <lloydp21@live.com> - 2014-08-08 07:45 -0500
          Re: Replace system fonts in Yosemite nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-08-08 12:19 -0400
          Re: Replace system fonts in Yosemite Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2014-08-09 10:21 +1200
  Re: Replace system fonts in Yosemite Lloyd  E Parsons <lloydp21@live.com> - 2014-08-08 07:39 -0500

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