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I was actually saddened when I saw people starting with their patches forcing Lucida back in OS X 10.10. Helvetica was one of the things that made the iPhone s

I was actually saddened when I saw people starting with their patches forcing Lucida back in OS X 10.10. Helvetica was one of the things that made the iPhone so great. Helvetica is neutral, timeless and easy to read. It's the perfect user interface font, especially the UI-optimized version OS X 10.10 is using. As always, people just hate change. That said, San Fransisco is a cool font, it just looks horrible as a computer font: too much space, and it's almost like all the characters look the same. But for a small device like a watch it's perfect.

54mf 12y ago
"Helvetica is neutral, timeless and easy to read." Not according to typographers. :) http://gizmodo.com/designers-explain-why-apples-new-os-x-typeface-is-a-str-1585123982 http://gizmodo.com/designers-explain-why-apples-new-os-x-typ...
exogen 12y ago
> it's almost like all the characters look the same. Interesting you say that, but prefer Helvetica. Quote from Erik Spiekermann in the film Helvetica: "Because all the letters...it's the whole Swiss ideology; the guy who designed it tried to make all the letters look the same."