![]() ![]() Of course, they also have many similarities with Helvetica. Although there are many design differences, one thing they all have in common is open apertures for higher legibility. Look at Lucida Grande (Apple), Droid Sans (Google), Fira Sans (Mozilla), Tahoma (Microsoft) or Segoe UI (also Microsoft). If you look at typefaces custom-designed for UI usage, one of the things that 90 per cent of them have in common (with the notable exception of Google's Roboto) is that they have very open apertures for the letters I mention above. ![]() There is a reason that most other typefaces specifically designed for user interfaces have used very open apertures, and that is because there is considerable evidence that tells us, other things being roughly equal, these shapes are more legible (see for example the research cited in Sofie Beier’s book on the subject). These nearly-closed shapes in Helvetica are stupid bordering on criminal in a user interface typeface. The new system font will appear in OS X 10.10 Yosemite, due this autumn
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