Change font on Apple Numbers drop-down menu.

The only issue I see from my trying this out is that the items in the popup menu look like they do in Apple Symbols font and there is no way to change that, but they are still chess characters and the cell itself can be formatted to display them in any of the other font variations available for those characters.

Here is what I tried:

1. I created a column of chess piece characters using the default "Apple Symbols" font. I dragged them in from the keyboard/character viewer. They look like chess pieces in the cells, as expected.
2. I formatted them to a different font variation, Arial Unicode MS. They still look like chess pieces but now with the characteristics of the chosen font.
3. I selected this column of chess characters and formatted them as popup. There was no change to what was in the cells (still looks like Arial Unicode MS) but the items in the pop up menu look like they do in Apple Symbols font and I see no way to change them.
4. I copy/pasted one of the popups to another cell. The menu items in the popup still look like they did in Apple Symbols font but the result in the cell is in Arial Unicode MS.
5. I formatted the cell to other fonts. In most of the fonts listed in Numbers on my Mac they look the same as Apple Symbols, except for Arial Unicode MS. If I drag in a chess character of a different font variation, it turns on that font in Numbers (or at least in this one document) and I can format the cell using that font and the chess characters will display in that font.

SGIII wrote:

Not sure what you mean here. The Apple Numbers app does not have a way of building a "drop-down menu."

He may be using drop-down to refer to pop-up

Editing Pop-Up Menus in Numbers - Apple Community

In any case, I don't think you can change the font the way he needs for those symbols.

If you do not know about the Keyboard/Character viewer, in my not very recent version of Mac OS it is this:

System Preferences->Keyboard->Input Sources. Check the box to Show Input menu in menu bar. The keyboard/character viewer will show up on the main Mac OS menu on the top right. Use that to see all the available characters (show emoji and symbols) or to see what characters you can type on your keyboard. The three dots in the top left of the character viewer will let you edit the list if you don't see what you are looking for. Or you can search. I searched on "chess" to get the chess pieces. When you click on a character it will show you all of the available font variations of it. You can drag one into Numbers.

Not sure what you mean here. The Apple Numbers app does not have a way of building a "drop-down menu."

Screenshot?

SG