Aaron Light 1.2.3

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On: 2015-06-08 03:19:08
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What is Aaron Light 1.2.3?

Years ago, I discovered Click-Change, a commercial program that could make all sorts of funky enhancements to the Mac’s interface. Today, a popular shareware program called Kaleidoscope does similar tricks: you can use it to modify just about every aspect of your Mac’s interface (see page 26 for more information about Kaleidoscope). I can’t be trusted with such tools — after a series of questionable color choices, my poor Mac just ends up looking gaudy.

Besides, some of us don’t want glitz. We don’t want our Macs to look like a Kaleidoscope. We fell in love with the new look of Mac OS 8 and, frankly, can’t understand why you’d want to mess with Apple’s look of perfection. Aaron Light is an extension for purists. What it does, in the words of its creator, Gregory Landweber (perennial interface tweaker and developer of Kaleidoscope, Greg’s Buttons, and other popular shareware), is “make Mac OS 8 look more like Mac OS 8.” This interface enhancement makes more apps conform to System 8’s Platinum Appearance. The beauty of Aaron Light is that you might not notice it once it has been programs that don’t work with Mac OS 8’s Appearance Manager. It patches the progress bars, floating windows, dialog box backgrounds, and menu glitches in applications that haven’t caught up with the times. Not being distracted by interface elements that don’t quite mesh is one of life’s simple pleasures. The final touch of Aaron Light’s understated elegance is that it lets you use Epsi Sans Bold as the system font rather than blocky Chicago.

Using Aaron Light couldn’t be simpler: toss it in the Extensions folder and forget about it. Its single option, the ability to replace Chicago with Epsi Sans Bold, doesn’t even require a new control panel: if you pick Chicago from the Appearance control panel, Aaron will silently substitute Epsi. If you pick Charcoal, that’s what you’ll get.

Savetz, Kevin M. (April 1998). Killer Customizations. MacAddict. (pg. 43).


Download Aaron Light 1.2.3 for Mac

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Mac OS 8 - 8.1 / BinHex'd, use Stuffit Expander
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Architecture


68K + PPC (FAT)



Compatibility notes


Emulating this? It could probably run under: SheepShaver





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