The system font for menus and stuff is Lucida Grande. But the title/header font on their web site and on their newer products is Myriad Bold. Lucida Grande is available to any application in OS X. Myriad is an Adobe font and comes with most Adobe apps, including Photoshop Elements. If you copy the postscript fonts Adobe hides in the Application Support folders (copy both the Base and CMaps folders), and place it in one of your Fonts folders, it too will show up for any app to use, not just Adobe ones.
PS: you van purchase Myriad from Adobe's fonts site.
I just read somewhere that the Myriad Apple uses is a slight variation on Adobe Myriad, like how the Garamond font they used was a very slight variation on Garamond Condensed (or narrow or whatever).
You might be right that it's Roman and not Bold, or maybe they use both?
The idea was that they look fairly similar at body text size, with Lucida Grande being a little more widely kerned and more legible. But Lucida is too thin and sparsefor a header, something Myriad is particularly good at.
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[ 03-03-2003: Message edited by: Mac Man 020581 ]</p>
PS: you van purchase Myriad from Adobe's fonts site.
[ 03-03-2003: Message edited by: BuonRotto ]</p>
<img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" /> Ooh, that's good: I shall be adding that to my everyday vocabulary.
By the by, the face on my PowerBook looks a lot more like Myriad Roman than it does Myriad Bold.
[ 03-04-2003: Message edited by: Overhope ]</p>
You might be right that it's Roman and not Bold, or maybe they use both?
[ 03-04-2003: Message edited by: BuonRotto ]</p>
Here's Lucida Grande:
Here's Myriad: