helvetica

You're right, Helvetica is and was a poor choice for Yosemite, even if you have a retina screen.

I really appreciated they decided to blow away all the Helvetica characteristics and go straight for an inspired variation of Akzidenz-Grotesk.

Wondering how many people tried going to long-domain-name-i-spent-10-dollars-on-just-to-put-one-snarky-word-in-96-point-helvetica.com like me...

I feel like the keming could use a little tweaking in places, but—for the most part—it's a big improvement over Helvetica Neue for legibility.

Just as Apple has never preferred Lucida Grande or Helvetica for marketing (only using either on the web in the pre-webfont era), this announcement doesn't get set in San Francisco.

Compact is far closer to DIN or Roboto (with flattened vertical strokes on glyphs like the uppercase C, D and G), whereas UI is far more rounded, and looks a lot like Helvetica for some glyphs.

It turned graphic design into something everyone could work with - which is why you now have fast food joints with sandblasted Helvetica on their windows, and regular passing font fads, like Ray Larabie's Neuropol, which was everywhere ten years ago.

I was concerned based on what I'd seen of the typography of the Apple Watch that it'd be too cold and characterless (I really dislike Roboto on Android) to use across OS X and iOS, but by creating this separate UI variant they're able to make it feel like a gradual transition from Helvetica Neue.

Helvetica and Arial make it hard to distinguish the "l"s from the "i"s, while the other two have distinguishing features: a round dot and sloped stem for FF Meta, and the little overhang on FF Unit.

Helvetica Neue wasn’t designed specifically to be read at small sizes on digital screens.

Those studies focused on geometric sans serif fonts like Helvetica.

Oh wow, they got rid of the Helvetica-style R entirely.