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I'm sure the fellow who wrote TinkerTool, which lets me change the Finder title bar font among other things, is a fine fellow and surely TinkerTool is not malware. Nevertheless... I want to change the Finder font without installing software. Is there a way to do it from the command line?

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You could ask the "TinkerTool fellow" how he does change the font and implement a small utility yourself. – patrix♦ Nov 9 '11 at 12:58
TinkerTool modifies ~/Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences.plist. If you change other fonts or font sizes with it, you can see the keys for them with defaults read -g | grep -i font. – Lauri Ranta Aug 8 '12 at 21:58

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Got it. It's in ~/Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences.plist

Modify the following entry:

<key>NSTitleBarFontSize</key>
<integer>11</integer>

with your desired font size. This file actually contains a lot of your system's preferences, from your locale setting, to the antialias threshold, to the scrollbar behavior. The file is a binary plist, so you'll either have to use Xcode or convert it into XML and then back again using this method.

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@Mithras NP. For some reason, iTunes doesn't seem to respect the setting. I guess it draws its window differently? Not sure what it uses. – cksum Dec 11 '11 at 20:30
There's no NSTitleBarFontSize key by default at least on 10.8. You could add one with defaults write -g NSTitleBarFontSize -int 12. – Lauri Ranta Aug 8 '12 at 22:00

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