Re: Displaying "Trebuchet MS" font
Re: Displaying "Trebuchet MS" font
- Subject: Re: Displaying "Trebuchet MS" font
- From: Jens Alfke <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 13 May 2013 12:36:42 -0700
On May 13, 2013, at 11:37 AM, Appa Rao Mulpuri <email@hidden> wrote:
> Any specific reason not to use "Trebuchet MS”?
No technical reasons.
In general, using a different font for those UI elements is against Apple’s HI guidelines. It’s going to make your app look gratuitously different and inconsistent for no good reason. I can’t think of other apps that use nonstandard fonts for alerts/toolbars/tooltips, except for (as I said) badly-done ports that use some custom framework to draw those and don’t get the fonts right.
In specific, Trebuchet is kind of dated. It was trendy about 10-15 years ago when it became available on enough platforms that people could use it in websites, but I haven’t seen it used that much lately. Also, it’s the default font in some default Windows UI themes, so if you use it for UI elements it’s going to remind a lot of people of Windows apps. That is generally a bad idea if you’re trying to make the app appeal to Mac users :-p
One way that I think of this: The Mac UI is designed by some of the best UX and visual designers in the world. If you want to deliberately go against the way they want all apps to look, you have to consider whether you really know better than them. (I’m not saying they’re infallible, and I definitely argued with them about details of apps I worked on at Apple, but you do have to respect their skills and experience.)
—Jens
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