An trio of tips and queries regarding fonts in Mac OS X: Displaying "graphic" fonts in Cocoa applications For several weeks now, we have been a bit mystified by the fact that we could not select nor ...

[Update 8/24/2007 - Some people are still going around accusing me of stacking the deck and fabricating evidence against Apple by disabling sub-pixel rendering on Mac OS X. It turns out that there is ...

Several changes are coming to the way Mac OS X handles fonts with the release of Snow Leopard. The changes likely won't affect many users, but the Mac has always attracted a number of users who are ...

Editor’s Note: The following article is an excerpt from Take Control of Fonts in Mac OS X, a $20 electronic book available for download from TidBits Electronic Publishing. The 255-page ebook contains ...

Mac OS X 10.5.5 exhibits problems with the display of some fonts when rendering PDF files, in which various characters seem to be distorted, causing difficulty reading documents. Apple Discussions ...

Gotta alotta fonts installed on your Mac, but never know which you’d like to actually use in a document? Most apps show font previews on the formatting menu, but with Microsoft Word and some other ...

If you are a Mac user and use the Windows system for occasional work, you will find that Mac has some beautiful collection of fonts that are not available in Windows. Professional users like artists ...

Notes on Mac OS X is like Notes on iOS: a basic, skeuomorphic note taking app that lets you type notes, format text, and add images from either operating system, and have them sync up if you’re using ...

Since the introduction of OS X in 2001, Lucida Grande has served as its main system font. But after taking the wraps off OS X 10.10, aka Yosemite at today’s Worldwide Developers Conference, it looks ...

Type can convey meaning just as strongly as words themselves. If you doubt this, consider the fonts used in the logos of two popular dolls — Barbie and G.I. Joe. The rounded type of Barbie’s logo ...

As part of the WatchKit resources, which can be freely downloaded by anyone at Apple’s website, the company released the font it uses on Apple Watch, called San Francisco. With Yosemite, Apple changed ...