If you have eyesight-related issues, or are experiencing headaches or eye-strain from using your Mac, then switching to Lucida Grande may help alleviate these issues. This wasn’t a huge change to the user interface, but a side-by-side comparison reveals some subtle differences between the two fonts:Īs you can see, Lucida Grande is slightly bolder, with additional spacing (kerning) between the characters, which can makeLucida Grande easier for some users to read. MacOS may have been using the San Francisco font since El Capitan, but if Lucida Grande still has a special place in your heart then it is possible to make Lucida Grande your system font on both El Capitan and Sierra.Įven if you’ve been using Macs for a while, then it’s possible you may not have noticed when macOS made the shift to San Francisco.