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Apple to Use 'San Francisco' Apple Watch Font in iOS 9 and OS X 10.11

If they opt for San Francisco on iOS 9 and OSX Im pretty sure they will tweek it to make it look better as a display font as they did with Helvetica Neue on OSX
 
Rocketman said:
Is it possible to simply choose among 3-4 available system fonts, even if you have to download and buy them?
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If you know what you're doing you can always switch your system font back in the "Font Book" application. You can even go back to Lucide Grande.
 
1984

Glad to know they are not referring to the 1984 version of San Francisco, which was part of the original Mac system software.

San_Francisco.png

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_(1984_typeface)
 
Also, don't take that iPhone and Mac screenshot for how it will look if this rumor is true. Helvetica was specially designed to fit on iOS and OS X. They tweak it and make their own special version.

This is something we will just have to see if it's true or not. :p
 
Cougarcat said:
Well, rumors are that iOS 9 will be more of a Snow Leopard release, focusing on stability rather than features. Hopefully 10.11 follows suit.
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But then why call it 9 and not stick with 8.x until there is a major release.
 
I noticed they also replaced the keyboard font on the new macbook with this font, which looks great. I'm not sure I like it as a system font though. I can see how it represents Apple's minimalistic design philosophy much clearer than Myriad or Helvetica ever did, but it's reminding me of DIN, a font that I never quite liked as a body font. It looks so rectangular and brutal. But let's see, they made the font, it's pretty obvious they will use it as a signature font no matter what.
 
Steve121178 said:
They said they were focusing on stability. Then they shipped iOS 8 that had more bugs at launch than any other iOS release I can remember. Then they shipped the botched 8.0.2 update that killed cellular access for 3 days. Appalling nonexistent QA!

I personally haven't been affected by some of the well documented issues with 10.10 but thousands and thousands of others can't all be wrong.
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You will need to point me to an article about this, because that was NOT what I remember.... In fact they pretty much laid out early on that there was a whole lot of "stuff" coming (continuity, applepay, dark OSX, etc.). They didn't touch the UI like they did with iOS 7, but I never read anything about iOS 8 and 10.10 being a stability release. Now with iOS 9 and 10.11 they are saying they are focusing on stability with little to no major features....
 
WrQth said:
But then why call it 9 and not stick with 8.x until there is a major release.
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Trying to find logic in version numbering is a lost cause.

Anyway, even if the focus is on stability, doesn't mean it isn't a major release. 10.6 had almost no new consumer-level features, but it had a lot of under-the-hood optimizations.
 
WrQth said:
But then why call it 9 and not stick with 8.x until there is a major release.
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Why did Apple call Snow Leopard 10.6 instead of say 10.5.9? It's historically Apple and now Apple is doing yearly releases whether it warrants it or not....

Who cares what "version" it is. I've had software skip whole versions before just because they "felt like it" (they always use some silly reason like well we thru out version X... but then why not just call the current release X?)....
 
I'd be fine with it, for what I see on the home screen. But the time in the lock screen seems... off...

Here's hoping that if they do use it, the actual implementation is better.
 
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