Neowin News Feed for: Font

Newly posted code suggests ChromeOS could refresh its default font

Sagar Naresh Bhavsar — Sat, 27 Apr 2024 06:04:01 +0000

After years of using Roboto as the default font for Chrome OS, Google is spotted to be preparing to use a different default font. It is said that the change is to align with the Material 3 design. Read more...

Ubuntu 23.04 could ship with an improved version of the Ubuntu Font

Paul Hill — Wed, 22 Mar 2023 18:50:01 +0000

Canonical is calling on the Ubuntu community to test out the updated Ubuntu Font and report any issues with screenshots. Most of the improvements are to scripts that do not use the Latin alphabet. Read more...

Instagram refreshes its visual identity with a new typeface, a brighter logo, and more

Karthik Mudaliar — Mon, 23 May 2022 16:38:01 +0000

Instagram is introducing a new logo which is brighter and includes more color gradient than ever before. It also created a new typeface that will make the brand identity uniform across platforms. Read more...

Google Roboto Serif is a new font designed to improve reading experiences online

Alap Naik Desai — Fri, 18 Feb 2022 21:32:01 +0000

Google is bringing Serifs to Roboto. Roboto Serif is a new font that tries to help internet users who are accustomed to reading long-form content with less eye strain, no matter the display used. Read more...

Microsoft highlights the UI changes coming in Visual Studio 2022, including new icons

Usama Jawad — Tue, 19 Oct 2021 11:38:01 +0000

Microsoft has highlighted the UI changes coming to Visual Studio 2022, including new iconography, fonts, improvement to dark theme, color contrast adjustments, accent color modifications, and more. Read more...

Twitter starts rolling out its proprietary "Chirp" font on desktop

Usama Jawad — Tue, 11 May 2021 10:42:01 +0000

Announced back in January, Twitter finally seems to be rolling out its new proprietary typeface called "Chirp" for desktop users. Reaction from the platform's users has been pretty mixed so far. Read more...

Microsoft is working on a new default font for Office, replacing Calibri

João Carrasqueira — Wed, 28 Apr 2021 14:14:02 +0000

Microsoft has announced its journey replace the default font for Office files, which has been Calibri for over a decade. There are five new options that users can test and give feedback on. Read more...

Creative Cloud adds support for Adobe Fonts across all mobile devices

Ather Fawaz — Fri, 01 Nov 2019 19:54:01 +0000

With version 5.0 of Adobe Creative Cloud for iOS, the complete set of Adobe Fonts will now be available on mobile devices together with support for hand-drawn annotations and more. Read more...

Calibri font plays its role: Pakistan now Sans Sharif as Prime Minister is disqualified

Usama Jawad — Fri, 28 Jul 2017 07:56:01 +0000

Microsoft's Calibri font was recently used as evidence again Pakistan's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his family in a corruption case. Today, the court has disqualified Sharif from office. Read more...

Microsoft's Calibri font used as proof against Pakistan's Prime Minister in corruption case

Usama Jawad — Tue, 11 Jul 2017 12:14:02 +0000

It appears that the availability - or lack thereof - of Microsoft's Calibri font is being used as evidence against the Prime Minister of Pakistan and his family in the ongoing Panama Papers case. Read more...

Unicode text loophole can be used towards undetectable phishing attacks

Justin Luna — Tue, 18 Apr 2017 13:16:04 +0000

A web application developer found that Chrome and Firefox are vulnerable to homograph attacks, where a party deceives another by using legitimate-looking URLs, which can lead to phishing scams. Read more...

Chrome pop-up pretends to be a font pack update to install malware

Justin Luna — Wed, 22 Feb 2017 06:36:01 +0000

A pop-up message appearing in the Google Chrome browser has recently been spotted, tricking users into downloading an alleged font pack. However, it was detected to be carrying malware. Read more...

Font Brothers out for blood after Hasbro uses font without permission

Paul Hill — Tue, 26 Jan 2016 16:08:01 +0000

Font Brothers are taking Hasbro to court after it stole a font to use with the My Little Pony brand. The company is out to get $150k for each infringement made by Hasbro, and there are a lot. Read more...

Apple is reportedly ditching Helvetica Neue in iOS 9 and OS X 10.11 for its own font

Andy Weir — Thu, 21 May 2015 12:34:01 +0000

Helvetica Neue is widely used across iOS 8 and OS X Yosemite, but Apple may be replacing it in the new versions of its operating systems with 'San Francisco', the font it designed for the Apple Watch. Read more...

Introducing Google's new design language: 'Material Design'

Andy Weir — Wed, 25 Jun 2014 16:26:06 +0000

Google has announced its new unified design language, with flatter visual elements, bolder use of colour and a greater focus on typography, and an interface that changes in response to touch. Read more...

Microsoft faces lawsuit over use of a font in Office and Windows

John Callaham — Sun, 22 Sep 2013 11:12:10 +0000

A lawsuit has been filed against Microsoft with the plaintiff claiming the company is using a particular font on Office and Windows without permission. Microsoft is denying the plaintiff's claims. Read more...

Nokia changes its font

Tzvi Friedman — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 16:28:57 +0000

Nokia has been in the cell phone business for a long time. It is a very easily recognized brand, and that was one of the reasons Microsoft was so intent on working with them to... Read more...

Microsoft attacks the font size of Apple's App Store brief

Christopher White — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 04:01:42 +0000

The war between Microsoft and Apple regarding the use of the term "App Store" rages on, with Microsoft claiming that the term is generic and Apple countering that the term is short for "Apple Store."... Read more...

Google Docs gets web fonts, Google Font API

Tzvi Friedman — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 17:12:37 +0000

As part of an ongoing improvement of the Google Docs platform as a collaboration tool, Google is now implementing web fonts as part of its word processing repertoire. Typically, text on a webpage is... Read more...

Microsoft, Opera and Mozilla create WOFF

Brandon Boyce — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 19:06:02 +0000

Microsoft, Opera, and Mozilla have all teamed up in support of the Web Open Font Format or WOFF. According to the IEBlog they submitted the WOFF File Format 1.0 specification to W3C on April 8th... Read more...

The iPhone now has everything, including a font

Brad Sams — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 13:36:02 +0000

Many electronic devices and brands will develop a following and the iPhone is no exception. It is known that brand image is vitally important to the success of any product and the iPhone has... Read more...

Microsoft and Apple Extend Font Licensing Agreement

Tom Warren — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 10:13:31 +0000

At TypeCon2007 today, Microsoft Corp. and Apple announced they have renewed their font licensing agreement, giving Apple users ongoing use of the latest versions of Microsoft® Windows® core fonts. Under the agreement, Apple and Microsoft... Read more...

Font Installer 1.0

Sun, 14 Aug 2005 07:25:43 +0000

Font Installer 1.0 is a quick and easy way for users to install fonts. Version 1.0 only supports True Type fonts. The benifit of this program against installing fonts through the Windows Fonts Folder is... Read more...

Font Size Upped on Neowin.net

Steven Parker — Sun, 10 Apr 2005 11:24:05 +0000

Some users on Neowin may have noticed that the font sizes have been changing over the last few days across some of the themes. Currently the CSS (stylesheet) for Classic, Violet and the Default Blue... Read more...

Orange font in UT2K3 game manual

Marcel Klum — Wed, 02 Oct 2002 06:36:48 +0000

It appears that some of the manuals are printed in Orange Font. Please note that this was a mistake at the printing press. A .pdf version of the manual is offered on the official... Read more...