Ralf Herrmann: Wayfinding & Typography » Mac OS X

iPad font viewer Type Specimen

Ralf Herrmann — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 20:06:02 +0000

Type Specimen is a free iPad app to visually browse the fonts of the Czech Suitcase Type Foundry. It can be used to select fonts for projects – be it magazine design, corporate identity design, web applications, or book typesetting. Type Specimen allows you to categorize individual fonts, make comparisons, or see details of specific glyphs. [...]

The iPad and SVG fonts in Mobile Safari

Ralf Herrmann — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 19:00:23 +0000

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. Oh my gosh! Yet a another font format for the web? [...]

Folder Type

Ralf Herrmann — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 11:13:55 +0000

Beautiful type animation build with colored empty folders on MacOS X. Folder Type from Emilio Gomariz on Vimeo.

Myths about Helvetica and Mac OS X (since 10.5)

Ralf Herrmann — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 19:20:52 +0000

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 [...]

MacOS X 10.5 (Leopard) Font-Cache löschen

Ralf Herrmann — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 11:37:04 +0000

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 [...]