When an application requests an installed font that’s currently disabled, Leopard activates that font and keeps it active until the requesting application quits. What was going on in Cupertino while Microsoft was developing ClearType and commissioning premier type designers to create universally acclaimed fonts for Windows Vista? Steve Jobs, the guy who gave a graduation speech lauding his own pioneering efforts in typography, should be embarrassed to watch Microsoft showing Apple how to do it right.Īutomatically activate fonts as you need them. Beyond basic OpenType support in Cocoa apps, Apple has all but ignored typography since OS X was born, seven years ago. The more serious issue is what’s missing in this list. And it’s easy to poke fun at Arial Unicode, Wingdings, and Microsoft Sans Serif, but they might be of use, if only for compatibility with websites developed for Windows. Papyrus Condensed does not qualify as a “feature”. Use new built-in fonts such as Arial Unicode, Microsoft Sans Serif, Tahoma, Papyrus Condensed, and Wingdings. Apple has provided OS X font lists that note which fonts should not be disabled, but it will be nice to finally have this safeguard built into the system. The problem is that dumping a required system font can lead to headaches down the line. There are so many fonts installed by the system and other software that most folks are bound to want to weed some of it out. Grade: C Another request I often hear from OS X users. Leopard will warn you when you’re about to perform an action that will remove a required font. Never worry about accidentally deleting a system font. Grade: B- it’s unclear how this will look, but it sounds like it might be handy for those who do multilingual or non-Western language work. Fonts are grouped according to your default language preference. Quickly access the fonts you use most often. I whole-heartedly recommend it without bias. For a quality type reference there’s always this FontBook. It’s kind of something that should have been in Font Book 1.0, and any other font manager can print catalogs, but it will be interesting to see if the new Font Book can do it better. Grade: B This is one of the more common requests generated by our young, font hoarding culture. Just select fonts in Font Book, choose Print from the File menu, and select any of the three built-in report types. ![]() Print out comprehensive previews of your fonts, including sample text in varying sizes or all available glyphs. Let’s look a little closer at the features in the Fonts category and give them snarky grades based on their potential value. Written by Stephen Coles on October 16, 2007Īpple announced a October 26 release date for Mac OS X Leopard (10.5) today, along with more detailed information on the new system, including over “ 300 New Features”. Grading the New Font “Features” in OS X Leopard
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