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Fonts. There are some fonts which just come by default on your device, except there's more than just the default fonts in existence, and I personally have some preferences for fonts.
I have 2 fonts that I prefer:
Inclusive sans (for pretty much anything (i.e. not monospaced))
JetBrains Mono (for all monospaced text)
That's it. And ideally, that would be the only font I would ever see or use on my computers.
However, because computers are made by people and sometimes people don't consider everything (especially disabilities, and names too (see link about falsehoods), on macOS, you cannot change the font used by the system globally. The best you can get is maybe application specific settings if any (and with TinkerTool, but that doesn't do much).
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Speaking of application specific settings: My web browser of choice, Firefox, has its own font settings. Hell, web pages can choose their own fonts! So I went to the font settings (in Firefox settings), changed the Serif and Sans-serif fonts to "Inclusive Sans", changed the Monospace font to "JetBrains Mono", and made sure to uncheck the checkbox labeled "Allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead of your selections above".
(While I mention Firefox, I actually use LibreWolf, a fork of Firefox. It's probably very similar in the area of font settings, so for the purposes of this blog post, my browser is Firefox.)
Another application with application specific settings for fonts: nheko, a Matrix client. In the settings (available after logging in), you can change the font family to whatever. I changed it to Inclusive Sans. I just left the emoji font family the default since that's other stuff that I don't have fonts for.
OK now I'm gonna talk about Linux cause that's what I'm actually using right now. I'm using the KDE Plasma desktop environment, and in the System Settings app, there's settings to change all the fonts. So I just changed everything to Inclusive Sans and changed the monospace font to JetBrains Mono and called it a day.
Both my web browser and nheko still have application specific settings that I have to change manually, but I've already went over that and it's the same thing.
After changing the font in the system settings on my Linux system, it's basically all Inclusive Sans or JetBrains Mono. So no matter where I look, it's the font I chose.
So, to compare macOS and KDE Plasma (Linux) in being able to globally change fonts: KDE Plasma wins. On macOS, it's still their default in lots of places.
There may or may not have been some places in KDE Plasma where the font didn't change, but it's kind of notice when the default is similar to your preference.