Post #4347935
2026-08-03 06:03 UTC
I also haven't gushed enough about how much I absolutely ADORE espy sans (the default Newton system font. Used in the app/icon names and such. It's not the font for the text of the note, which I believe is Sand?). My introduction to Espy Sans was the iPod Mini in 2004, and to this day Espy Sans is my favorite font. Apple knocked it way out of the park with that.
Unfortunately, Espy Sans is not going to make an (official) comeback because it's a bitmap font, and truetype fonts are definitely a better technology.
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@whophd@ioc.exchange 2026-08-03 07:19
@younata@hachyderm.io Apple was really cooking with pixel-perfect fonts in the late 1980s. Espy, Charcoal and my personal favourite, Sharron (8, but also 16), for taming the impossible 2:1 pixel aspect ratio. They said it couldn’t be done 😉