For the first time ever, Apple is ditching Lucida Grande as the OS X system font in favor of Helvetica Neue, which also happens to be the iOS system font. For an operating system thats used by 80 million people, thats no small thing. Will it make reading on desktop computers easier? Harder? We asked Tobias Frere-Jones, the famed typeface designer who has worked with some of the worlds best publications and design shops, to offer his insights on what this change means for consumers. In his view, Apple might have made a mistake. Here, he highlights some of the challenges of deploying Helvetica Neue onto an OS abundant with small type and devices where non-Retina displays are still the norm:
Posted on: Tue, 03 Jun 2014 23:04:13 +0000
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