People did calm down over the subsequent days of the week-long conference.
“Skinny font as seen on the iOS 7 banner at WWDC.” Please, no. The day before the announcement, our friend Stephen Coles was already deeply worried about the light weight of Helvetica on the display banners hanging at the WWDC venue in San Francisco: The live-streaming keynote address from the WWDC developer’s conference last Monday hadn’t even started before the first typophiles started sharing their concerns on Twitter. There was no shortage of long-distance diagnoses of the typography in Apple’s recently presented mobile interface, iOS 7. The English translation for is by Maurice Meilleur. This article by Jürgen Siebert was first posted on Jto the German.
Written by Jürgen Siebert on July 1, 2013 Beyond Helvetica: The Real Story Behind Fonts in iOS 7