{"id":15139,"date":"2010-04-09T00:26:15","date_gmt":"2010-04-09T07:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/?p=15139"},"modified":"2010-04-08T21:07:24","modified_gmt":"2010-04-09T04:07:24","slug":"type-on-the-ipad-unfortunately-not-so-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/15139","title":{"rendered":"Type on the iPad: (Unfortunately) not so good"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/iPadType.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8216;This is only conjecture, but it feels like Apple decided to save some cash on font licensing by relying on the same old Linotype fonts they\u2019ve bundled with their machines for years. If that\u2019s the case, why not go with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hoefler_Text\" target=\"_blank\">Hoefler Text<\/a> which is already installed on the iPad? And the strangest omission of them all: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Georgia_%28typeface%29\" target=\"_blank\">Georgia,<\/a> the father of all screen serifs and far better than any of the iBooks options.&#8217;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>FontShop&#8217;s Stephen Coles takes a look at type problems on the iPad. Read more <a href=\"http:\/\/fontfeed.com\/archives\/ipad-typography\/\" target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Disappointing to note because <a href=\"http:\/\/inventorspot.com\/articles\/steve_jobs_ipad_ten_commandments_37182\">Steve Jobs<\/a> was always an advocate for good typography. Hope there&#8217;s some (good typographic) upgrades coming.<\/p>\n\r\n\t<div style=\"float: left; \">\r\n\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"horizontal\" data-text=\"Type on the iPad: (Unfortunately) not so good\" data-url=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/15139\"  data-via=\"mehallo\">Tweet<\/a>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;This is only conjecture, but it feels like Apple decided to save some cash on font licensing by relying on the same old Linotype fonts they\u2019ve bundled with their machines for years. If that\u2019s the case, why not go with Hoefler Text which is already installed on the iPad? And the strangest omission of them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts","category-typography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15139"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15159,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15139\/revisions\/15159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}