making MacVIm more eye friendly is the same for gvim :)

just add these 2 lines to your ~/.vimrc

:colorscheme desert
set guifont=Monaco:h14

I can't believe there are people who can use font size 8 as default!

another productivity tip, I change the colorscheme on the remote server so that I know if I am editing the same file on the remote server or locally just by the colors :)