Archive for August, 2011

Safari in OS X Lion replacing text with ‘block A’

Wednesday, August 31st, 2011

A few people are noticing after installing Lion that Safari may make fonts in Web sites incorrectly, and explain some or all of the text as a series of square blocks with the capital letter A in them.

Users who have had this problem have tried resetting Safari cookies and browser caches, but have not had any chance with these measures, indicating the problem is neither with site settings nor any conflicts with the browser’s cache.

One cause for this problem is that there may be a difference between varieties of fonts you have on the system, or there may be a problem with the font cache or other system caches. Therefore, to supervise these problems you can either validate fonts using Font Book to see if there are any font conflicts, or run various cleaning routines to clear system caches.

Validate fonts

Apple’s Font Book application can be used to supervise system fonts, including turning them on and off, as well as validating them to see if there are any conflicts. To run a Font validation, open Font Book and pick your fonts, followed by choosing Validate Fonts from the File menu. The system will check each font and explain you whether they have passed, or whether minor or major problems were found. After the custom has run, you can manage the problematic fonts by either removing them or disabling them, or otherwise fixing the specific question at hand.

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New fonts for japanese sports brand

Monday, August 29th, 2011

Graphic designer Ian Lynam, who has a innovative studio based in Tokyo, has designed two new fonts for the Japanese sports fashion brand Onitsuka Tiger. His type design plan drew inspiration from the company’s archives of print advertising. He looked at the typography and graphic design of hundreds of their catalogs, brochures.

Kirimomi Swash
Kirimomi Geometric Sans

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Jailbreak iOS 5 Updates

Friday, August 26th, 2011

Themes, Fonts and iFile

I don’t use themes on my iPhone, but there are some stylish themes that are purchased and used by many others. Forever since the iOS 2.x days, there were WinterBoard and SummerBoard to improve the look and feel of your device. Now, themes are more advanced than ever, with widgets, dashboard-like apps, beautiful automasking icons and more. Apps like Bytafont allow you to modify your font system wide and it offers a wide range of fonts as well. You can also separately change lockscreen fonts and keyboard fonts. iFile is beautiful much Finder for your iDevice. This is something the iOS community has always wanted Apple to execute to the software but it has yet to do so. iFile allows you to view and correct elements such as codes and .plist files. It allows installation of .deb files and moving approximately of files and folders. Apple has absolutely nothing on the customization front in iOS 5.

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Extensis Updates Font Management Applications to Support Mac OS X

Wednesday, August 24th, 2011

Extensis, a division of Celartem Inc., announced the immediate availability of updates for their popular font management applications Suitcase Fusion™ 3 and Universal Type Server® to support Mac OS® X 10.7 (Lion) and Adobe® Creative Suite® 5.5. A new XTension® for QuarkXPress® 9 is also included for the Universal Type Client.

The updates are available as a free downloads for the Suitcase Fusion 3 and Universal Type Server 3 font managers on Macintosh® and Windows® operating systems.

This release updates Suitcase Fusion 3 for compatibility with Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion). Universal Type Server and Universal Type Client were previously compatible with Lion.

The new plug-ins automatically activates the exact fonts required for each file using the patented Font Sense™ technology to create a unique fingerprint for each font. Adobe Creative Suite auto-activation plug-ins now include:

•Adobe InDesign® CS3, CS4, CS5, and CS5.5
•Adobe Illustrator® CS3, CS4, CS5, CS5.1 (shipping with CS5.5)
•Adobe Photoshop® CS4, CS5, CS5.1 (shipping with CS5.5)

 

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