LONG DASH FOR HELVETICA NEUE LIGHT MAC OS X

LONG DASH FOR HELVETICA NEUE LIGHT MAC OS X

Not to mention AndroidвЂ™s own Droid Sans, also designed as a UI typeface.)ДЄ slightly weaker argument could be made for Lucida Grande (the Mac OS X UI font), which is only slightly tweaked from Lucida Sans. ( UPDATE: Plus, there is Prelude, designed by David Berlow and Font Bureau as a UI typeface for the Palm Pre operating system-when Duarte himself was in charge of UI for the Pre. Not to mention Chicago, developed for the original Mac OS back in 1984. unfamiliar both with an obscure operating system called вЂњWindowsвЂќ and its typefaces Segoe UI (introduced in Windows 7) and Tahoma (introduced in Windows 95), both of which were specifically designed/вЂ‹intended for UI usage. ( UPDATE: Duarte says he thinks he was misquoted, basically he was trying to just say UI typefaces are hard, and Roboto had a particular challenge in needing to work in a wide range of contexts and types of devices.) вЂњBut the idea of having a typeface thatвЂ™s thought out as a UI typeface-thatвЂ™s not been done before.вЂќ вЂњUIs are crafted from images and type,вЂќ Matias Duarte, AndroidвЂ™s head of design tells WIRED. I just object to uncritically publishing quotes that makeВ blatantly false statements. I am not a hugeВ Roboto-вЂ‹hater likeВ some folks in the type community. I thought if I held off, I could just do a few sarcastic tweets and be done with it, butВ no. Wired magazineвЂ™s puff-вЂ‹piece on GoogleвЂ™s Roboto typeface revisions is really bothering me.

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