It might still be nice if FLTK defaults to the system UI font, though, if you feel it is worth the effort.

@CendioOssman I don't think that this is appropriate, keeping backwards and cross-platform compatibility in mind. There would be at least eight fonts affected (FL_HELVETICA (proportional): normal, bold, italic, and bold italic) and the same for FL_COURIER (fixed font). These are the fonts that are most likely used by all applications. Loading other fonts than we have now by default would likely cause trouble because applications would look different, maybe font sizes and spacing would be different, etc..

That said, an additional API to overload specific fonts with all variants from alternate system UI fonts might make sense. A global flag set by a function call early in the program, i.e. before "the display is opened", might also be useful. However, such an API would need to be well defined and usable cross platform etc. etc.

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