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Look at how better spaced both Lucida Grande and Seravek are at this size. Let’s look at a portion of the Finder’s sidebar: The lowercase E, having a perfectly round form, looks like the letter theta of the Greek alphabet (ϴ).īut the font size in application menus is one of the biggest across the system. Look at ile in ‘File’, it in ‘Edit’, ie in ‘View’. You can also see what’s wrong with Helvetica Neue: there are clusters of letters that end up looking too compressed, for starters. I still like Lucida Grande best, and you can see the similarities between Seravek and Lucida Grande (although I very much prefer Seravek’s lowercase L). 1) is the current system font Lucida Grande, 2) is Helvetica Neue, and 3) is Seravek. I chose to capture Reeder 2 for Mac’s menubar because it has more items than the Finder’s and features longer words like ‘Accounts’ and ‘Subscriptions’. It’s my preferred reading font on iBooks, and the only font I feel comfortable keeping at small sizes despite my not-great eyesight: I find Seravek to be an incredibly versatile font for the screen, and quite legible even at 8–9 pt.
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If I were tasked with coming up with an alternative to Lucida Grande to be used in Mac OS X, my font of choice would be Process Type Foundry’s Seravek: This should be Human Interface Guidelines 101. The user interface of a smartphone or a tablet is different from the user interface of a desktop or laptop computer. Why not use VAG Rounded then, since it’s the font in use on Apple’s keyboards? Or why not use Myriad Pro, since it’s Apple’s corporate font? Because the best way to implement a font is considering the context. Choosing Helvetica Neue because it’s the system font on iOS and visually amalgamating Apple’s operating systems is nice, is another silly thing.Especially when the supposed replacement is not an improvement, at all. Moving away from Lucida Grande only because ‘it feels old’ is a silly excuse.It is a solid font, very good for display, with great legibility at the various different sizes needed for all UI places and elements. There is absolutely nothing wrong with Lucida Grande.Let me get a few things out of my system (no pun intended): On a Mac, I honestly fear Helvetica Neue is going to be a bit of a legibility nightmare. On iOS it’s tolerable because you keep your device closer to your eyes than a Mac when you interact with it. I’ve been hearing about the change from Lucida Grande to Helvetica Neue for a while now, and my initial reaction hasn’t changed - I believe Helvetica Neue to be a terrible choice for a system font. In fact, the Iconfactory is, in general, trying to get ahead of the curve on 10.10. Meanwhile, Craig Hockenberry is convinced that the system UI font will be changed to Helvetica Neue from the current Lucida Grande. … similar toggle designs to iOS 7, sharper window corners, more defined icons across the system, and more white space than the current version. According to Mark Gurman of 9to5Mac, OS X 10.10 will be the star of the conference, with changes such as…
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Nick Heer, in the Mac OS X 10.10 section of his Spitballing WWDC 2014:īut, if the rumours are to be believed, OS X is about to receive a major overhaul.