For anyone still looking for an alternative to the Metal look and Feel, you can use "com.sun.java.swing.plaf.nimbus.NimbusLookAndFeel". It looks better than Metal, but still dated... Sun was never the greatest for UI...
It should work with the Oracle JVM, but I'm guessing not the others. Personally, I just changed my font as described in some of the other posts.
For anyone still looking for an alternative to the Metal look and Feel, you can use "com.sun. java.swing. plaf.nimbus. NimbusLookAndFe el". It looks better than Metal, but still dated... Sun was never the greatest for UI...
It should work with the Oracle JVM, but I'm guessing not the others. Personally, I just changed my font as described in some of the other posts.