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		bbx on Nov 19, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: San Francisco system font replacement for Yosemite Typeface designer Tobias Frere-Jones' opinion about Helvetica in Yosemite: http://www.fastcodesign.com/3031432/why-apples-new-font-wont... It echoes Erik Spiekermann's view as well: Helvetica wasn't designed for small sizes on screen. http://spiekermann.com/en/helvetica-sucks/

gohrt on Nov 19, 2014 [–]

The FastCo blog article, the one what derides the uselessly thin font, is published in an unreadably thin set of fonts.

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