[NETBEANS-6358] Font style regression: badly readable font style

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Affects Version/s: 12.6
• Component/s: editor - Navigation, ide - UI, java - Navigation

Environment

NB 12.6
Win10

• Assignee: Eirik Bakke
• Reporter: S. M.
• Created: 03/Jan/22 23:02
• Updated: 11/Jan/22 21:59
• Resolved: 11/Jan/22 21:59

Description

The font style changed in 12.6 in a way that makes it less readable. The following fonts are bold now:

• The name of the source files in the source-code-tab
• The project names in the projects windows (and all its child nodes)

This bulky use of bold fonts makes the text badly readable. Please use a regular font instead! The source-code names in the source-window-tab used to be bold only when the file had unsaved changes, which seems to be a good thing to me.

It might seem to be a 'minor' problem, but the font as part of the ergonomically usability is quite important.

Thanks a lot!

Here the comparison:
Bulky and badly readable: New bold style

Clear and readable: Old regular style