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Typography

Snow Leopard vs. 3rd Party LCD Displays

In Mac, Typography on 18 August 2009 tagged 2408, dell, display, snowleopard with 35 comments

Update: CWS provided a solution in comment: opening Terminal and entering defaults -currentHost write -globalDomain AppleFontSmoothing -int 2, after re-login, everything is back to normal again! Update: Turns out the problem is not just from Dell, various 3rd party display manufactures including Samsung, LG, HP and EIZO also have the same issue. A very tricky [...]

Updates on font changes in Snow Leopard

In Mac, Typography on 4 June 2009 tagged font, hiragino, snowleopard with 10 comments

A few months ago, I’ve covered font related changes in Snow Leopard in this post, that was perceived from developer preview build 10A286, after I got build 10A335 and 10A354, several changes can be observed. Heiti SC and Heiti TC we covered earlier are now used as the default fallback fonts for Simplified Chinese and [...]

Palm Pre 中的默认字体

In Typography on 11 May 2009 tagged coconut, fonts, mojo, palm with 1 comment

最显眼的，也是整个 Palm Pre 产品的标志性字体，是英文用的 Coconut 字体族，这是一套由 The Font Bureau 在 2008 年给 Palm 专门开发的 sans-serif 字体，包含 Medium, Medium Oblique, Condensed Bold, Condensed Medium, Bold, Bold Oblique 六种风格。这套字体看起来很像修改版的 Avenir。 更新：The Font Bureau 正式发布了这款字体，命名为 Prelude，可能是因为先前已经有字体叫作 Coconut 了… 日文是 VL PGothic Regular，看得出是经过精心选择的免费字体。 简体/繁体中文是文鼎 PL UMing (AR PL UMing)，这个就比较恶了，可惜能选的免费字体也不多。 韩文是 Batang，这个应该是 Windows 下默认的韩文字体。 还提供了 Times New Roman, Arial, Verdana, [...]

Web 字体的出路在哪里？

In Browsers, CSS, Typography on 22 April 2009 tagged fonts with 1 comment

浏览器直接可用的 Web 字体在去年被重新提起，可是没过一段时间就沉寂下去，最近一期 A List Apart 上 Jeffrey Zeldman 采访 David Berlow 的这篇 Real Fonts on the Web 又引起了新一轮的讨论，这里摘录一些有趣的话。 David Berlow: How important dynamically rendered type is to design and use on the web must now be clear. In addition, the only other option—that the type industry cede its intellectual property to the public without [...]

Snow Leopard 在字体方面的变化

In Mac, Typography on 17 March 2009 tagged dfont, font, hinting, menlo, snowleopard, STHeiti, ttc with 11 comments

字体反锯齿选项不再允许选择 hinting 的程度 (以前可以选择 Medium, Light, etc.)，现在似乎默认就是 Medium，不能改，很奇怪 (我个人习惯用 Light 的)。 原来 Mac OS 独有的 dfont 字体格式被抛弃了，改用 ttc (TrueType Collection) 格式替代。 uncia:~ jjgod$ ls /Library/Fonts/*.ttc /Library/Fonts/AmericanTypewriter.ttc /Library/Fonts/GillSans.ttc /Library/Fonts/Baskerville.ttc /Library/Fonts/HelveticaCY.ttc /Library/Fonts/Chalkboard.ttc /Library/Fonts/Hoefler Text.ttc /Library/Fonts/Cochin.ttc /Library/Fonts/MarkerFelt.ttc /Library/Fonts/Copperplate.ttc /Library/Fonts/Optima.ttc /Library/Fonts/Didot.ttc /Library/Fonts/Papyrus.ttc /Library/Fonts/Futura.ttc /Library/Fonts/STHeiti Medium.ttc uncia:~ jjgod$ ls /System/Library/Fonts/*.ttc /System/Library/Fonts/Courier.ttc /System/Library/Fonts/Menlo.ttc /System/Library/Fonts/Helvetica.ttc /System/Library/Fonts/STHeiti Light.ttc /System/Library/Fonts/HelveticaNeue.ttc /System/Library/Fonts/Times.ttc /System/Library/Fonts/LucidaGrande.ttc iPhone OS [...]