Beyond Helvetica: The Real Story Behind Fonts in iOS 7

Re:Beyond Helvetica: The Real Story Behind Fonts in iOS 7 by tricolon on Monday July 08, 2013 @06:41PM (#6009845)

I'm curious—does it still look like absolute shit if you rotate the screen?

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Re:Beyond Helvetica: The Real Story Behind Fonts in iOS 7 by scrumper on Monday July 08, 2013 @09:55PM (#6010629)

Yes, it still looks pretty bad. It looks like it matters a lot more with the thinner font in iOS 7 whether the straight line strokes sit across a physical pixel boundary or not.

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Re:Beyond Helvetica: The Real Story Behind Fonts in iOS 7 by mortenjorck on Monday July 08, 2013 @06:46PM (#6009868)

There's no LCD subpixel smoothing in iOS, so it shouldn't make a difference.

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Re:Beyond Helvetica: The Real Story Behind Fonts in iOS 7 by tricolon on Monday July 08, 2013 @08:16PM (#6010314)

Perhaps it's just a WebKit bug, but I've definitely noticed this before in an older iPad: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3220662/uiwebview-font-is...

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Re:Beyond Helvetica: The Real Story Behind Fonts in iOS 7 by erso on Monday July 08, 2013 @08:31PM (#6010368)

I've noticed this effect also, and across a number of apps, on both an iPad 4 and an iPad mini. It's most obvious on the mini due to the low pixel density on the iPad mini.

I can't read the mini in portrait mode mostly because I haven't found a font+size combo that I find acceptable.

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