Apple products are fashionable. iPhone and iPad developers use a recognizable design and a special iOS font, which gives the stylish gadgets a special elegance. Users of Apple gadgets are often entrepreneurs, businessmen, architects and designers who have special reverence for the text styles used both in the IOS itself and in applications installed on a tablet or smartphone.
iOS font applications:
- Fonts;
- FontBrowser;
- Font Designer;
- Font Dresser Free;
- FontMaker;
- Cool Fonts;
- Phonto;
- Textizer;
- What The Font;
- Super Txt;
- Byte Font 2;
- Font Gallery Preview;
- Tapefaces.
The most popular fonts for iPhone and iPad
Apple is developing dynamically, constantly improving the design of its devices and operating system. The boxes of all Apple gadgets, without exception, use the sans-serif font Myriad Pro Semibold, also used by Rolls-Royse, Walmart and even Google. The keyboard of any Mac must have VagRounded written on it.
The interface of these devices is used by Lucida Grande. For the iPhone and iPad, before the advent of the Retina display, the Helvetica font was used, after which Helvetica neue was used. This typeface is not exclusive - it is successfully used by the 3M trademark and the BMW concern. Despite the high image component, many experts are skeptical about the practicality of the styles used in Apple gadgets. The company’s specialists have foreseen this scenario, so every user of an Apple smartphone or tablet will be able to customize the information displayed on the screen.
Why did Apple come up with and introduce the new San Francisco font into iOS?
Apple has used the Helvetica font set as the system font for iOS since the release of the first iPhone. They also replaced Lucida Grande in Mac OS X starting with version 10.10 Yosemite. So why has Apple now decided to get rid of the world's most beloved font? iOS 9 is now officially available to everyone, and a new font family called San Francisco has subtly replaced Helvetica Neue.
Helvetica (left) and San Francisco (right)
By this point, they were already used in the Apple Watch. Now San Francisco has become a single standard font for all platform products: Apple Watch, iPhone, iPad and Mac.
Apple has used the Helvetica family as the system font for iOS since the release of the first iPhone. They also replaced Lucida Grande in Mac OS X starting with version 10.10 Yosemite. So why has Apple now decided to get rid of the world's most beloved font?
Small sizes are Helvetica's weak point
There is an opinion that Helvetica is not suitable for small texts. When Helvetica replaced the previous family in Mac OS X Yosemite, many designers found the replacement unsuitable.
“Helvetica sucks” from Erik Spiekermann’s blog.
You can verify the low readability of Helvetica as follows. Type small text and blur it. Some of its fragments will be “mixed” so that it becomes difficult to make out their contents. They say Apple developed the San Francisco family precisely to make small text on the Apple Watch more legible.
However, the resolution of modern smart devices exceeds the resolution of printed publications, and texts in the iPhone are not always as small as in the Apple Watch. Why then did Apple make a replacement not only in the Apple Watch, but also in iOS and Mac OS X?
San Francisco - diverse
San Francisco fonts have many features that make them easy to read.
In fact, the San Francisco version for Apple Watch and the version for iOS/Mac are two different fonts. A font family called “SF” is used for iOS/Mac, while the Apple Watch uses “SF Compact”. You can see the difference in rounded letters such as 'o' and 'e'. The vertical lines of the SF Compact are made flatter than those of the SF.
This difference causes text typed with SF Compact to have more space between characters, resulting in text that is more legible when read on small devices such as the Apple Watch.
In addition to this, each of the families is divided into two more subfamilies: “Text” and “Display”. Apple calls this “Optical Sizes”. The Text subfamily is intended for small-sized texts, while the Display subfamily is intended for large-sized texts.
San Francisco Font Family
As mentioned above, in sans serif fonts such as Helvetica, two adjacent letters "blend together" and letters such as 'a', 'e', 's' become very similar to each other for small text sizes.
Comparison of indents between characters in fonts of the Display and Text subfamilies
Comparison of fonts of the Display and Text subfamilies using the example of a single character
The Text subfamily, at the same time, is designed in such a way that the indents between characters in it are increased compared to the characters in the Display subfamily, and the gaps in them are expanded to improve readability with small text sizes.
San Francisco is dynamic
One of the great things about San Francisco is that the headset is dynamically optimized. Display and Text replace each other according to the size of the displayed text. The threshold here is set to 20pt.
Designers and engineers don't have to worry about choosing the right option from the family. We just add the system font to the UILabel, for example. The system itself will determine which headset you need.
However, what's truly impressive about San Francisco fonts is how they display colons. Usually in other fonts we see it right above the bottom line, so in cases where it is located between numbers, the colon is not vertically centered. However, in the San Francisco family of fonts, this alignment occurs automatically.
Automatically align colon vertically to center
San Francisco came to us from the digital age
As you can see, San Francisco fonts are designed and designed to make text of any size and on any device easy to read.
Helvetica, which they replaced, was created in Switzerland in 1957, when there were no digital devices yet. It is, however, still used by many companies as a corporate font, and will no doubt continue to be used in the future as a good classic font.
San Francisco, on the contrary, is a modern font. His typeface changes dynamically, according to the context. It can be called a kind of “native font” of the digital age.
Dynamic Type
The default iOS 7 font is Helvetica neue. You can change the style of text to improve readability using multi-level construction, which is used to visually compare the characteristics of the fonts used.
Special sliders with seven levels of fixation ( Settings – General – Text Size ) will allow you to quickly adjust the size of the text displayed in the application. For those who are not satisfied with the given maximum value of iOS font settings, the mobile platform developers have introduced the option Settings – General – Acessibility .
This option allows you to use the maximum font size and increase its contrast, which significantly increases the readability of the content for people with visual impairments.
How to install fonts on iPhone or iPad
To add fonts, you need to download an application with a font installer from the App Store. As a basic collection, most users will need the free Font Diner , which contains over 20 new fonts for iOS. After downloading from the App Store and launching the application for the first time, the user will be prompted to install new fonts.
You can view the fonts installed in iOS (iPadOS) in the Settings → General → Fonts menu.
It is worth noting that it is not yet possible to use installed fonts in all applications, even in standard ones (Notes). But popular text and image editors already support this feature. For example, to apply an installed font in Pages, tap the brush icon and select the text style you like.
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What is a font: the basics
It is important to understand the terms of font construction in order to separate one font from another and understand the properties of each. First, you should understand these terms: ascender line, descender line, baseline, leading, and X-height.
BytaFont 3
If you want to change the font appearance on your iPhone/iPad, you can use the BytaFont 3 app. BytaFont 3 is a free jailbreak tweak that allows you to change the system font on your iOS device. Please note that in order to use this application, you must have access to the device's file system.
Jailbreaking can void your warranty and make your smartphone immune to updates coming from Apple. Additionally, jailbreaking may result in data loss, so make sure to back up your iPhone before proceeding.
• Install BytaFont. To do this, open “Cydia” => Find “BytaFont” and install it. After successfully installing BytaFont 3 on your device, launch it. Here's how to install apps using Cydia Impactor on iOS.
• To install fonts on iOS, open the BytaFont 3 application and find the “View Fonts” function on the bottom menu. Then select a font and download it. Install and enjoy :3
Found another application to replace fonts on iPhone? Leave the name in the comments and we will definitely update the article!
How to find out whether an iPhone is restored or not?
The letter M means the device is new. If the first letter in the code is F, then this is an officially restored iPhone.
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You can also find out the restored iPhone in the device menu:
- to do this, go to Settings;
- then “Basic”;
- “about this device” and pay attention to the model, which consists of letters and numbers.
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AnyFont
If you want to change the default font on your iPhone without jailbreaking, AnyFont app is the best solution. Although this application does not support changing the system font on the device, it works with Word, Excel, PowerPoint for iPad, Keynote, Pages and many other applications.
How to install the AnyFont application?
AnyFont is a paid app that costs $1.99 and you can download it using iTunes.
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How to add additional fonts on your iPhone/iPad using AnyFont?
1. Find the font you want to add . AnyFont supports most common font types such as .ttf, .otf or .tcc. You can type "TTF" into the search engine and select any of the fonts provided.
2. After, you will need to add a font . You can add it using the "Open in..." function, selecting the AnyFont application from the available options.
3. After loading the font into AnyFont, it will appear in the list of fonts. You will need to install it by clicking on it. The application will begin downloading after you confirm your actions.
Typeface
When using a modern font like SF, Proxima Nova or Museo, you will find that they have several weight options: Thin, Ultralight, Medium, Semibold, Bold, Heavy and Regular. Font size and style complement each other. It is useful to remember that at 11-19 pt you should use Regular, at 20-34 pt - Medium, and for 34 pt and more - Bold. Light and Ultralight can be used when the font size is very large so that the text can be read, but it is worth remembering that large headings in iOS 11 are usually written in bold.
