Thanks, Justar, this works great.
Now to see if I can replace the craptacular font in the rest of the UI.
By the way, you can skip the patch by running Everquest2.exe directly. The downside is that you will have to re-enter your password if you switch characters.
Edit: Ah, excellent. I've replaced the Zapf font in the rest of the UI with Arial by replacing the contents XML files. Just copy-paste from Arial14 or ArialBold15, then change the font name back to the original, and there you go.