Font Changes in iOS 5.1 - AppleGothic

Apple iOS 5.1 was released late last evening (local time in Finland), as part of the "new iPad" announcement. Naturally I installed it right away and checked what FontType utility app tells me.

Apple has removed AppleGothic and added two Apple SD Gothic Neo fonts.

Update: I've been told these are Korean fonts, so I generated sample texts in Korean. I believe the text is supposed to mean "On this Day" or something like that.

Other iOS fonts are still same as in iOS 5.0.1 (see also: "New Fonts in iOS 5.0 - and Some Missing").

AppleGothic screenshots below:

FontType 1.1 Release Notes and Future Plans

FontType version 1.1 was released on Apple AppStore on Monday. Official release note contains iOS5 compatibility, font metrics view and undefined fixes under the hood. Apple used 4 hours for the review (according to push notifications via iTC Mobile app), wonder what they were doing.

Biggest change is internal, out-of-sight, thanx to the objc_dep dependency graph tool. As you can see (in this linked article) the version 1.0 architecture was a bit dodgy, me coding at nights half asleep and during 15 minute breaks desperately trying to recall what the frak was I doing between constant context switches.

Rise and Fall of FontType in App Store

It's three weeks since release of FontType, my first app under my own name (actually Jomnius). It's been ... interesting times. Didn't expect big sales, but hoped to get at least a few users. Nope.

Some comments and suggestions for update. None. Bug reports. Nada. Hello, anyone there?

New Fonts in iOS 5.0 - and Some Missing

Apple iOS 5.0 was released few days ago and installation was rather hard. It's still not complete, since I had 500+ apps and restore from iOS 4.3.5 backup was about a total failure. Enough of that, waiting for iOS 5.1 release rather soon.

Let's look at fonts. Yes, with pictures!

iOS 5.0 was a huge update in many ways and one of them is built-in font selection. For the first time ever, iPhone and iPad have exactly the same fonts!

FontType 1.0 Now Available in App Store

After lots of sleepless nights and countless redesings I am happy to tell that first of my three apps is finally available in App Store:

FontType 1.0.

It's a small and nice "font viewer" application. Got several reasons to write it, so many that I want to list them: