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Eirik Bakke updated NETBEANS-5927:
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> Switch Windows LAF to the now-standard "Segoe UI" font
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> Key: NETBEANS-5927
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NETBEANS-5927
> Project: NetBeans
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: platform - Other
> Affects Versions: 12.4
> Environment: NetBeans 12.4 with Windows LAF on Windows 10.
> Reporter: Eirik Bakke
> Priority: Major
> Attachments: fontchange-1-before.png, fontchange-2-after.png
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> For the last 14 years (since Windows Vista), the default UI font on Windows
> has been Segoe UI 12. But Swing's Windows LAF stayed with Tahoma 11, for
> reasons of backwards compatibility only (see JDK-6669448). This makes
> NetBeans look a little dated, and the font size smaller than in other Windows
> application. In the words of one blogger: "On a related note, this is one of
> the bigger visual deficiencies of NetBeans running on Vista – the smaller
> Tahoma font makes it less visually appealing that it could have been."
> https://www.pushing-pixels.org/page/213?m
> This PR switches the NetBeans Windows LAF to the newer Segoe font, by
> borrowing logic from FlatLAF to get the actual Windows default font from the
> "win.messagebox.font" desktop property, which is initialized from the Win32
> API. This also avoids one of the problems that were fixed in the earlier
> https://github.com/apache/netbeans/pull/1777 , with the Swing Windows LAF
> using incorrect font sizes on certain HiDPI configurations.
> Segoe UI 12 looks similar to Tahoma 11, but with ascenders and descenders
> that extend one pixel farther up/down. Letters like "j" and "y" have some
> differences in their shapes.
> Note that certain UI elements, notably the menu bar, were already using Segoe
> UI 12. And FlatLAF is already using Segoe UI 12 on Windows. Note also that
> this PR should not affect the main code editor font.
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