Fonts used by apple. What does the San Francisco font look like?


The need to change fonts in iOS on iPhone and iPad can be caused by different reasons. An incorrectly selected font can cause discomfort to the eyes, preventing you from using your smartphone for your own purposes, and standard font in iOS it can get boring.

On this moment, all Apple products (except devices with iOS 8 and below) use the font San Francisco. This font was first introduced by the developers on November 18, 2014. It was first used as system font Apple Watch, and later replaced Helvetica Neue in MacOS and iOS, starting with OS X El Capitan and iOS 9. San Francisco also became the system font for tvOS, starting with 4 Apple generation TV. This is the first new font in iOS, developed at Apple over the past almost 20 years.

In this article we will tell you how to change, increase and decrease the font in iOS.

How to change font size on iPhone and iPad




3. Click “Enlarged test”.
4. Change the position of the slider, thereby adjusting the font size.



You can also adjust the font size and thickness on your device without using third party applications. This is much easier to do, but the changes will not be very noticeable.

How to remove (enable) bold font on iPhone and iPad

In order to change the font size on iOS, you need to:
1. Go to “Settings” and select “General”.
2. Select “Universal Access”.
3. Switch the toggle switch to the “ON” position.
4. Confirm to reboot your smartphone and enjoy life :).



The best apps to replace fonts on iPhone

Today, there are two common and quite simple ways font replacement in iOS. Of course, not without its drawbacks.

So for example, to change the font on your device, you will need to access its file system(which is essentially a firmware hack) or pay a small amount, thereby purchasing an application that allows you to change fonts in iOS. Which of these methods to choose is up to you, but I would recommend spending money and purchasing paid application.

AnyFont

If you want to change the default font on your iPhone without jailbreak, the AnyFont app will 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.

AnyFont iOS App Tutorial - Schriftarten auf iPhone/iPad installieren ohne Jailbreak

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. Afterwards, you will need to add a font . You can add it using the "Open in..." function by selecting from possible options AnyFont application.

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.

BytaFont 3

If you want to change the font appearance on your iPhone/iPad, you can use the BytaFont 3 application. 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.

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!

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 Company is developing dynamically, constantly improving the design of 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 iPhone and iPad before availability Retina display the Helvetica font was used, followed by Helvetica neue. 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.

How to Add Fonts on iOS

Any owner of an iPhone or iPad can go to and select any application from the ones listed above. This option will allow you to use daily work with the gadget some special typeface (for example, Roboto Font). iOS font apps are often used by designers for their projects.

How to change fonts on iOS

Users Apple devices may not use third-party applications to solve a font problem with iOS - to do this, it is enough to use the built-in capabilities of gadgets. Owners of branded tablets and smartphones have ample opportunities to change the text style in the settings, as well as the Dynamic Type option (optical size adjustment), integrated into iOS 7.

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 font iOS settings, mobile platform developers have introduced an option Settings – General – Accessibility.

Apple on Monday presented the next versions of its operating systems - and. Among a number of improvements, special attention is paid to the use of the new system font San Francisco, which replaced Helvetica Neue. MacDigger visually compared the font styles in iOS 8 and iOS 9 beta 1.

The San Francisco font was designed specifically for the operating room interface Apple systems Watch. It should be readable in small registers. Previously iOS users 8 complained about the poor readability of Helvetica Neue in the case of thin fonts and small case. San Francisco is also used as the keyboard font on 12-inch MacBooks.

Apple's love affair with fonts dates back to its founding. And my penchant for calligraphy Steve Jobs showed when developing the logo. Then the proud name of the Apple Computer brand was written in the Motter Tektura font, developed in 1975 by the Austrian designer Othmar Motter.




In 2002, the company decided to change the scenery and chose the Adobe Myriad family as the main font. All text information, accompanying the release of such products as iPod Photo, iPod 5G, iPod Nano(1st–2nd generation), designed using its own modification of the font - Podium Sans (with the characteristic writing of the letters “M” and “Y”).




Helvetica Neue came to iPhone and iPad with iOS updates 7 in 2013, and in OS X since the OS X Yosemite update. The designers were critical of this decision - the new font was not easy to read. "It's just a bad interface font," said designer Frank Chimero. - Low contrast, similar shapes and so on. The letters are difficult to distinguish from each other, especially in text typed in a small size." Experts believe that San Francisco is “clear and clearly distinguishable” and is easier to read than Helvetica Neue.

Apple has used the Helvetica font set as the system font for iOS since release 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 resolution printed edition, and texts on the iPhone are not always as small as on 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 designed for small-sized texts, while the Display subfamily is for large-sized texts.


San Francisco font family

As mentioned above, in sans serif fonts (or sans serifs) such as Helvetica, two adjacent letters “mix”, and letters such as ‘a’, ‘e’, ‘s’ become very similar friend on each other with 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 no digital devices. 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.

Apple is preparing to introduce a new version of the OS X operating system – 10.11. Among special attention deserves the use of a new system font. Let's not wait for the official presentation, let's try it on right now.

The news is that OS X 10.11(and with it mobile version iOS 9) will receive a new system font that somewhat amuses users and completely discourages software developers for the Mac platform. Indeed, if Apple completely switches to the font "San Francisco" developers face a tedious process of marking up the interface of their applications. Well, apparently the “policy of constancy” has changed to a policy of “unnecessary developments” and there are two options: either you and I are skeptics, or Apple is really not working on what the user would like.

Apple and fonts

The company's love affair with fonts dates back to the time of its founding. And Steve Jobs showed his penchant for calligraphy when developing the logo. Then the proud name of the Apple Computer brand was written in font Motter Tektura, developed in 1975 by an Austrian designer Othmar Motter.

The choice in favor of Motter Tektura was due to its innovation and “technological look”. In 1984, the Macintosh computer entered the market, and such an important event was met with the use of a completely new (within the company) font Apple Garamond. Original ITC Garamond was created in 1977 by Tony Stan. Its peculiarity was high degree density (about 60-70% compared to traditional fonts).

This is exactly what Apple liked. Famous slogan of the company “Think different” - “Think differently”, like a number of Apple advertising brochures, were executed using Apple font Garamond. Until the exit Mac OS X 10.3 Apple Garamond was supplied separately as part of a designer font package.

In 2002, the company decided to change the scenery and chose the family Adobe Myriad. Two designers worked on it at once - Robert Slimbach And Carol Twombly commissioned by Adobe.

All text information accompanying the release of products such as iPod Photo, iPod 5th generation, iPod Nano (1st-2nd generation), designed using our own modification of the font Myriad – Podium Sans(with the characteristic spelling of the letters “M” and “Y”).

All iterations of the operating room Mac systems OS X, later renamed OS X, (from 1999 to 2014) received the same system font from its developers - Lucida Grande. With the release of the anniversary OS X 10.10 Yosemite, the company decided to give users a new font. Helvetica Neue confidently entered the life of a poppy grower. Despite a number of similarities, Helvetica Neue, according to Apple designers, is more economical in distribution on a horizontal line.

The Helvetica Neue font was developed back in the early days of the computer era by a Swiss typographer Max Miedinger back in 1957 in Basel (Switzerland). The font was originally named Neau Haas Grotesk in honor of the ancient printing factory Haas'sche Schriftgiesserei. In 1960 it was renamed to the usual Helvetica, which literally translates to “Swiss”. Apple chose the font as the basis for the system font in OS X Yosemite Helvetica Neue, developed in early 1983.

But before the eyes of users have had time to get used to the “new Swiss” in a year, the designers introduce us to the new style of letters. In the recently presented new Apple product Watch family font is used San Francisco. Does he look familiar to you? You are not mistaken. It is with San Francisco that flaunts on the layout of the new 12-inch MacBook.

The problem with such a forced transition of the company to a new font lies not only in the company’s desire to unify the interface of all operating systems created for different types Apple devices, but also in choosing a universal font. After all, over its more than 50-year history, Helvetica has ceased to be that elegant, perfect and rational font that was created by Swiss designers.

Weaknesses of Helvetica Neue:

  • expansion of the letter style of the entire family;
  • modified font thickness;
  • imperfect algorithm for rounding the intraletter space;
  • Constant adaptations to Linotypes (printing equipment) led to the fact that the font became “too square”.

The forced compromises that designers made for the benefit of technology turned the font from a work of art into a soulless set of similar letters and numbers with similar characteristics.

In the end, Apple decided to return to its roots and opt for the San Francisco font, developed more than 30 years ago and used on the first Macintosh computers. The font was specially developed internally by NeXT, one of the most talented designers Suzanne Kara. The original San Francisco is very different from what is used in the Apple Watch today.


Apple's first San Francisco font

San Francisco for 2014 is a completely new font family specifically developed in-house for wearable accessories.

Properly compacted letters remain readable and at the same time do not take up too much space on the horizontal line. When creating the font, Apple redesigned the styles of all letters and paid a lot of attention to punctuation marks.

So, the new San Francisco font is preparing to enslave the OS X and iOS platforms. Well, let's see what it will look like?

Replacing the font

So let's replace the standard Helvetica Neue font with the one in new version Apple is preparing the operating system for us.


After loading OS X Yosemite, the system font will be changed:


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