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➟ The sad state of typography on the iPad

An article by Stephen Coles on fontfeed.com about Apple’s increasingly bizarre typographical choices, especially in the iPhone/iPad OS. Helvetica as a system font, Marker Felt for Notes, Verdana in iBooks (without Georgia), and that ebook reader’s plain awful justification scheme. I wasn’t aware of these flaws, and they’re seriously putting me in the wait-and-see category of someday iPad buyers.

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