Tag: fonts

IBM’s quest to design the Helvetica of the 21st century; the company’s first typeface, ‘IBM Plex,’ is free for anyone to use

Tuesday, November 14, 2017 10:57 amTuesday, November 14, 201730 Comments

The Plex family includes a sans serif, serif, and monospace versions…

Why I won’t use Apple’s Notes application

Wednesday, March 23, 2016 12:01 pmWednesday, March 23, 201625 Comments

Apple’s Notes app is quite useful. You can store notes on your Macs and iOS devices…

Trappist monk who inspired Apple’s fonts dead at 83

Wednesday, March 9, 2016 4:27 pmWednesday, March 9, 20168 Comments

The man who inspired Steve Jobs to bring multiple typographic styles to the Mac…

Use the Apple Watch font as your OS X Yosemite Mac’s system font

Wednesday, November 19, 2014 11:29 amWednesday, November 19, 201412 Comments

With Yosemite, Apple changed the system font from Lucida Grande to Helvetica…

Typeface designer: Apple making a mistake with new OS X Yosemite system font

Wednesday, June 4, 2014 4:28 pmWednesday, June 4, 201487 Comments

For the first time ever, Apple is ditching Lucida Grande…

Tobias and Jonathan’s Excellent Adventure ignites Font War: Inside the design world’s $20 million divorce

Wednesday, April 9, 2014 4:28 pmWednesday, April 9, 20144 Comments

For 15 years, Frere-Jones and Hoefler seemed charmed…

Destroyed typeface, thrown into the Thames a century ago, gets a second life

Thursday, December 26, 2013 11:29 amThursday, December 26, 201310 Comments

On dark evenings in late 1916, a frail 76-year-old man…

Beyond Helvetica Neue: The real story behind fonts in iOS 7

Tuesday, July 9, 2013 6:03 pmTuesday, July 9, 201314 Comments

Apple’s mobile products will be the first electronic devices that will…