![]() This may be a placebo effect, but I’d swear that transitions as folders open and close are smoother and sweeter.Īpple’s making big claims for Metal, its new graphics technology that puts the right pressure on the GPU and thus frees the CPU to do its job better. It was designed by Apple’s in-house team, primarily for the iWatch.įor those fixated with function over form, San Francisco is equally good news – because it’s slightly more condensed than Helvetica, you can actually fit more words into a line… handy when you’re trying to read that long file name in the Finder.Īnd the improvements aren’t just limited to the change in font. Everything just seems a little more fulsome and better proportioned.Īnd for the font fetishists out there, don’t worry – you wouldn’t have heard of San Francisco before. The new font, San Francisco, has more character than Helvetica, while not being so great a change that it alters the entire look of the OS. But at certain sizes in Yosemite, it was nasty. ![]() Yes, there are font fascists out there who swear by Neue for its purity and history. I never could quite understand why Jony Ive and his design gurus decided to switch to Helvetica Neue for OS X Yosemite. ![]() Not in some kind of totally repainted overhaul kind of way, but in a whole host of subtle revisions that make the entire experience a little easier on the eye. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |