The very disturbing trend of mixing Helvetica, the ubiquitous typeface designed for print in the 1940s, with Lucida Grande, the typeface designed for Mac OS X’s interface in 2000, in user interface design under Mac OS X. I must say I’ve noticed this myself, and asks the same question as the author: Why?
One thing I did not notice, though, is that iCal uses Helvetica for its headers on screen, but Lucida Grande when printing. This is both completely backwards and completely wrong. Hard to fault third-party interface design when Apple is just as guilty.
http://blog.cocoia.com/2008/04/12/swiss-interface-syndrome/
