Ralf Herrmann’s Typography Weblog

The iPad and SVG fonts in Mobile Safari

Posted on 13. Apr, 2010 by Ralf Herrmann.

With all this hype around the iPad, people keep asking if the iPad supports webfonts. The good news is: Yes, it does. The bad news: the iPad runs Mobile Safari and in contrast to the standard version of Safari only SVG fonts are supported.

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Folder Type

Posted on 24. Jun, 2009 by Ralf Herrmann.

Beautiful type animation build with colored empty folders on MacOS X.

Folder Type from Emilio Gomariz on Vimeo.

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Myths about Helvetica and Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)

Posted on 31. Jan, 2008 by Ralf Herrmann.

For many years professional graphic designers are used to replace the Helvetica system fonts on the Mac OS with a Type1 version. But with Leopard this seems to be impossible. Whenever you delete the fonts, they will be reinstalled after you reboot the system and you will get a lot of annoying font conflicts.

I looked at several weblogs talking about this issue and they all make a lot of strange statements. So time to shed some light on this subject.

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MacOS X 10.5 (Leopard) Font-Cache löschen

Posted on 05. Dez, 2007 by Ralf Herrmann.

In Panther und Tiger lagen die Font-Caches noch in den Librarys von System und Computer. In Leopard hat nun jeder Benutzer einen eigenen Font-Cache. Die gängigen Tools, wie etwa der Linotype Fontexplorer, kennen diese Position noch nicht und können den Cache daher nicht löschen. Wer den Cache manuell löschen will, muss zunächst einmal die Anzeige von versteckten Systemdateien aktivieren. Ich benutze dazu üblicherweise Onyx. Dann findet man den Leopard-Font-Cache unter:/private/var/folders/…/-Caches-/com.apple.ATS/Der Inhalt dieses Ordners kann bedenkenlos gelöscht werden.

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