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iOS 9 San Francisco font. Cannot unsee Comic Sans.
Anyone else?
Every time I read my email I feel like my “Great Aunt Edna” dialed up AOL and wrote me a the latest synopsis of deep Midwestern living, whatever that means. She always wrote in Comic Sans. To Edna’s credit, she would also choose a whimsical background pattern to go with it. How fun. And bubbly.
But now, all my supposed business emails look like dear ole Edna’s. My brain is half short circuiting on whether or not I need to take my client emails seriously or respond with a whimsical background of my own, like a sandy beach with a seashell.
With a glass half full, I give ‘props’ to Auntie Edna. I would have never guessed she would be the internet futurist that she turned out to be.
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I have other issues with the newest iOS release, but that’s not one of them.
David Roth Weiss
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Los AngelesDavid is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.
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Yo APPL, Comic Sans is a MICROSOFT font.
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haha,
when I first saw it in screenshots, I hated it. I thought it really looked Windowsy, for a lack of a better word.
Now that I have it on my iPhone 4S and my iPad Air, I’m starting to warm up to it. I still think the Compact version (that they use for the Watch and some small areas in iOS 9) looks really ugly, but the regular version is ‘okay’. Esthetically, I still love Helvetica Neue a lot more, but I get that readability on small heights can be better with the new font.BTW, I’m very happy with IOS 9, even on my iPhone 4S, the lowest supported hardware, it seems to work better and with more battery life then iOS 8.
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What is everyone talking about? I don’t see any change on my phone. You’re seeing some sort of handwritten comic sans type font?
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No.
But, for whatever reason, Comic Sans has a similarity to San(s) Francisco to me. It’s round and bubbly and causes weird letter spacing.
I do like the iOS 9 functionality, though.
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I don’t see any font change. Where do you see it. My email just looks like Helvetia, Arial, Verdana etc. Haven’t paid much attention to exactly what flavor. Certainly nothing bubbly or comical.
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in IOS 9 (as well as in El Capitan when it will be released) the system font is changed from Helvetica Neue to the Apple-developed San Francisco Font.
Sometimes they look a bit like each other, in some cases they differ.
You can see it very quickly in numbers.https://appleapple.top/ios-9-vs-ios-8-a-comparison-of-san-francisco-and-fonts-helvetica-neue/
https://www.wired.com/2015/06/apple-abandoned-worlds-beloved-typeface/
https://mashable.com/2015/09/16/apple-ios-9-font/?utm_cid=mash-com-Tw-main-link#KenZJfvmpGkS
https://mashable.com/2015/09/16/ios-9-font-change/#ca82umPfZqko
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They’re extremely similar. And if I had to choose I suppose I’d choose the tighter helvetica neue. But there is nothing even remotely similar to comic sans in my eyes.
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Your email doesn’t look like this:?
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