Changing fonts in iCal

I use iCal 2.0.4 and wonder how to change the font and its size in the month calendar.
PowerBook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.8)

I too would like to know how to do this.
I'm hoping someone has a technique. Even a command line entry via Terminal would be better than nothing.
Hard for me to believe that Apple has not given the user any ability to control the font, or it's size and style, in any calendar view on screen.

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My program im writing recently is a small tiny application which can change fonts, font sizes, font colors and background color of the graphics object containing some strings. Im planning to use Jcomboboxes for all those 4 ideas in implementing those functions. Somehow it doesnt work! Any help would be grateful.
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                 JComboBox cb = (JComboBox)ev.getSource();
                Color colorType = (Color)cb.getSelectedItem();
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2) Combobox stores the colors in an array
3) ActionListener should do following job: (but cant get it right - that is where my problem is)
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       public void paintComponent(Graphics g) {
              super.paintComponent(g);
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It is the completely correct code
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public class DrawingBoard extends JPanel implements ActionListener{
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          JComboBox cbBG = new JComboBox(new Color[]{Color.BLUE, Color.RED, Color.GREEN});
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          add(cbSize);
          cbSize.addActionListener(this);
          add(cbColor);
          cbColor.addActionListener(this);
          add(cbBG);
          cbBG.addActionListener(this);
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     protected void paintComponent(Graphics g){
          super.paintComponent(g);
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          g2.setColor(bg);//set background color
          g2.fillRect(0,0, getWidth(), getHeight());
          g2.setColor(color);//set text color
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          g2.fill(tl.getOutline(at));
     public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e){
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               font = new Font(cb.getSelectedItem().toString(), Font.PLAIN, size);
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               size = ((Integer)cb.getSelectedItem()).intValue();
          }else if (e.getActionCommand().equals("color")){
               color = (Color)cb.getSelectedItem();
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