[fredsted]

I was actually saddened when I saw people starting with their patches forcing Lucida back in OS X 10.10.

Helvetica was one of the things that made the iPhone so great.

Helvetica is neutral, timeless and easy to read. It's the perfect user interface font, especially the UI-optimized version OS X 10.10 is using.

As always, people just hate change.

That said, San Fransisco is a cool font, it just looks horrible as a computer font: too much space, and it's almost like all the characters look the same. But for a small device like a watch it's perfect.

[54mf]

"Helvetica is neutral, timeless and easy to read."

Not according to typographers. :)

http://gizmodo.com/designers-explain-why-apples-new-os-x-typ...

[exogen]

> it's almost like all the characters look the same.

Interesting you say that, but prefer Helvetica. Quote from Erik Spiekermann in the film Helvetica: "Because all the letters...it's the whole Swiss ideology; the guy who designed it tried to make all the letters look the same."