Apple has been making a couple of very disastrous design choices lately. There are many apps one can use to take notes on OS X, all of them diverse so that one can chose the one that fits his/her needs and taste best. The faded vintage yellow, the thin lines and the torn pages on top. The note page is designed to ressemble a common paper notepad in all its details. The mood it is designed to transmit is very specific in this case. Not exaggerated like Marker Felt and not typografic like Helvetica. While fun little retro ditty, as one might call it, it is also calligraphic, personal and neat. Second, I believe that the reason why Apple chose Noteworthy, was not because it is 'cute’.

First, it is that it is way better than Marker Felt, which had an unneccessary boldness, and reminded one more of a miniature white board than a notepad. There are many reasons why I believe that Noteworthy is the wisest choice for the Notes app. But yet again, as you said, everyone can change the font as they wish. There is only one instance in which I would agree with your comment, and that is, I believe it does not favor people who might be suffering from dislexia. In the review above you mention how the font not readible/legible and the letterspacing is very tight. I used it all the time on Scrivener when I was writing and editing my novel. I have been using the particular font for a long while now, before it came as default for Notes. Remember it is meant to emulate a notepad.Īfter reading your 'review’ on the Noteworthy font, I decided I had to email you, because I personally dissagree with your opinion. In all a font cannot just be chosen because of its readability and legibility, other factors like technical limitations, context, mood, aesthetics, and design intent need to be taken into account. With a website for example there can be 3,4 or 5 different typefaces in use this will force a designer to use a more conservative typeface to ensure the reader is not being strained. applications of this nature are capable of using more decorative typeface because it is often the only typeface in use on the page at the time. Other similar and popular applications, Colour Note and AK Note to name but two, both use rounded and decorative typefaces without excessive ornamentation. Arguably a classic and highly legible type face like Sabon would have been a good alternative, personally, I feel it would not have produced the same overall aesthetic. The font appears to have a good balance between readability and legibility and not forgetting that it is appropriate for the user and the message it is conveying. The glyph are well sized and spaced allowing for greater readability. The individual characters work well and have clearly been designed to complement each other when grouped into words, sentences, paragraphs etc. I have been struggling to understand why this choice in font is so disliked. The design is based on a Filmotype face called Alice/ Brooklyn, though the original source could be any of many very similar fonts from the early phototypesetting era (1950s–’60s). There is no designer credited in Noteworthy’s font copyright info, but the vendor field is assigned to Apple. See how the change in font in the first paragraph confuses the automated linespacing.

Cute, but it doesn’t do a great job deciding when to jump the type to two lines. But it’s another disappointing default choice from Apple.Īlso, Notes wants to automatically align everything to the lines in the skeuomorphic background. Its very tight letterspacing and playful shapes make it even less readable and legible than Marker Felt.įortunately, unlike the hacks that were required of iOS users who wanted to free themselves of Marker Felt, the Notes app does allow you to engage the Fonts panel and use any font you wish. It’s a fun little retro ditty, but this choice is arguably worse than the notorious M arker Felt, used for the first versions of Notes in iOS and almost universally mocked. It is the default font for the new Notes app in OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion). You’re looking at Noteworthy, an Apple typeface that has been around on OS X for about a year (since Lion 10.7), but was unknown to most users unless they stumbled on it in their font menu. These are the most common typefaces in the database, but there are many more.Haas Inserat-Grotesk / Neue Aurora VIII (50).

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