It's looking nice on Retina, but if you have a rather smaller font on non-retina it's a lot less readable than Helvetica.
I hope they fix that.
I hope they fix that.
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Apple to Use 'San Francisco' Apple Watch Font in iOS 9 and OS X 10.11
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Hehe Beta Testing it right now.
Thanks for the pic....after an hour of use, nobody will care about the change, which is the way it should be!
Now...will Safari be snappier?
Whatever happened to that video from WWDC a few years ago?
"For every yes, there are 1,000 noes"
I feel like they've been very trigger happy on decisions like this for the past couple years.
"For every yes, there are 1,000 noes"
I feel like they've been very trigger happy on decisions like this for the past couple years.
I had it on my jailbroken iPhone for about a week before I did away with it and haven't gone back to it since.
Apple/Google/Facebook/Amazon/Yahoo/Twitter/YouTube etc... All American companies. Perhaps there is something to Patriotism, and building American products.
How is designing a new font trigger happy? It probably took the better part of two years to design it, knowing Apple. Design a whole new font just for the Watch? This is obviously a thought-out, long term, design & technology strategy play. Definitely not a knee-jerk decision.
I liked the original San Francisco font. The was the one that looked like a ransom note, iirc. Though my favourite font has always been Chicago from my old Mac days.
The reason we are is because several people had a dream....mid 1770's I believe.
Oh those guys were great. If only the dreams Americans had around 2003 were as good.
I never had a problem with Helvetica Neue... in fact, I prefer it to San Francisco though on a very small screen, San Fran is probably more legible. In the end, I don't think most users will even notice.
I have mixed feelings about it. On the one hand, a condensed typeface works well from the utilitarian perspective of UI design because you can fit more text into menus, labels, etc. It works especially well on a small display like the Apple Watch. However on desktops, phones and tablets I'm not sure if we need it to be this condensed. The only area I can really think of that it would be useful in iOS is in tight spots like app icon labels or navigation bars. Other than wishing it was slightly less condensed I don't have a problem with the typeface and wouldn't be upset to see it across all of my devices later this year.