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BlogsTypography for all: demystifying text for high-impact messages
Text is incredibly powerful – whether you’re making a business card or a garage-sale sign, you’re sending a message. The look of that message...
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NewsiBooks update includes new fonts, night reading theme
Early yesterday, Apple updated its iBooks iOS app with several new features, as well as including some stability and performance improvements. iBooks...
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BlogsTypographer boycott: Art vs evil
I’ve been re-reading Simon Garfield‘s Just My Type after it was sent to us by its appropriately titled American publisher Gotham Books....
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FeaturesNew in Lion: Fonts and texts
Among Lion’s 250-plus new features are improvements big and small in the way OS X handles text and fonts; Font Book and Text Edit in particular...
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BlogsYanone Kaffeesatz font imparts coffee house flair
Novelty display faces abound in the free font universe, but for those of us looking to design more than headlines, the pickings are slim. Which is...
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BlogsTen iPad apps for designers (and the rest of us)
A common opinion about the iPad since its release is that it’s a device for consumption only – its creative abilities are apparently not up to...
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BlogsSwitcher Sensei: A knowledge of font
Given Apple’s history in typography and publishing, you’d think Mac OS X had a wealth of font management features that you wouldn’t find elsewhere....
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Enable better font smoothing on some LCD displays in Snow Leopard
One of the unwelcome changes in Snow Leopard, at least for myself and others who use certain third-party LCD displays, was the gross simplification...
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Bugs & Fixes: Font duplicate misadventures
Troubleshooting fonts is among my least favourite Mac tasks. Understanding precisely what is going on and what fix is needed too often seems a bit...
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Scary fonts
Halloween (October 31) is sometimes accompanied by feelings of fear and dread, but it also can inspire celebration and remembrance.
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New: TypeStyler makes long-awaited OS X debut
After seven years of development, Strider Software says it’s shipping an OS X version of TypeStyler.
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How to clear font caches in Leopard
As you use various fonts in OS X, the system caches font data, to make future access faster. However, there’s also the possibility that those...
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News
Gridiron Flow released as public beta
Gridiron Software on Wednesday released its much anticipated workflow tool, Flow, as a public beta for Mac users.
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Use Font Book to organise fonts
Every so often, I’ll be digging around in my archives and find a folder full of fonts—maybe I copied them off a clip art CD one day, intending...
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Toggle smoothing during screen zoom
If you use the Universal Access screen zoom feature—Command-Option-equals and minus, or Control plus your mouse’s scroll wheel—you’ve probably...
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Find creative inspiration online
The Web is a breeding ground of new ideas and collaborative resources—you simply need to know where to look. But while there are plenty of great...
