Mac Kung Fu, 2nd Edition

Tip 60

Use Your Own Choice of Notes Font

Many OS X apps try to look like real-life equivalents. For this reason the Notes app defaults to a font called Noteworthy, intended to look like handwriting, but which many people find irritatingly hard to read. There are two ways to change the typeface, depending on your needs.

• While writing a note, you can switch to any font you’d like by hitting Command+T, which will open the Fonts palette, where you can also choose bold and italic text if need be. This will affect only the note you’re currently writing.

• To change the default font used to display all notes that have had no text formatting applied, which will be nearly all of them, you can click Format→Font→Default Font and choose from three choices: ...