Different Results When Setting Nimbus LAF

Question

I'm a bit confused with what is happening with my GUI. In my program, I wanted to overwrite Nimbus' default font with my own custom font, so of course, I have this code in my program:

try {
        NimbusLookAndFeel laf = new NimbusLookAndFeel();
        UIManager.setLookAndFeel(laf);
        laf.getDefaults().put("defaultFont", courier);
} catch (UnsupportedLookAndFeelException ex) {
        Logger.getLogger(GUI.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null, ex);
}

That's all fine and dandy except it doesn't overwrite all of the font. Just the font on the title borders. Example:

Now, if I set the Look and Feel via VM Options in Netbeans, I get this result:

If it's of any help, these are the VM Options I am using:

-Dswing.defaultlaf=javax.swing.plaf.nimbus.NimbusLookAndFeel

My main concern with this is that when compiling into a 'fat jar' and running on another computer, the VM options don't seem to stick and I am left with the crappy looking first screen shot. So can anyone tell me why this is happening? Maybe offer up some kind of workaround or fix. Thanks!

EDIT: The nice looking theme (screenshot 2) doesn't seem to work outside of netbeans at all

Possible [duplicate](http://stackoverflow.com/q/30841389/230513): "Swing GUI objects should be constructed and manipulated only on the event dispatch thread, _after_ you've invoked `UIManager.setLookAndFeel()`." — trashgod, Jul 25 '15 at 10:52
Thanks for the comment. Will try, though I question the possible duplicate. — zfollette, Jul 25 '15 at 10:53
No. For some reason, the only thing that worked was setting the L&F to nimbus via -D flag, then setting it to nimbus again programmatically — zfollette, Jul 26 '15 at 18:43

Different Results When Setting Nimbus LAF

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