This has been itching me ever since I installed Leopard. Lucida Grande, the ‘default’ font for much of OS X’s UI has been ‘upgraded’ to version 6.0.
This wouldn’t be a problem (or even noticeable) if the new Lucida Grande hadn’t replaced the glyph for the hellenic character epsilon with the ugliest, most striking version ever to grace my Mac. Since Hellenic is my mother tongue, I frequently use it and was immediately striken by the new glyph although it took a while for me to realise what it was that bothered me. Take a look at the following two samples of Lucida Grande 5.0 (from Mac OS X ‘Tiger’ 10.4) and Lucida Grande 6.0 (from Mac OS X ‘Leopard’ 10.5).
Old:
New:
Ugly? Very much so. I suspect they changed it so that those that use Hellenic for mathematical/physics notation can get a more ‘appropriate’ epsilon. To them I say: Use LaTeX for Typography’s Sake! At least the rest of the font is still as beautiful as ever.
