It may be that Steve Jobs’s most important legacy to Apple was his ferocious focus (just say no), and his ability to strip a complex thing (a product or problem) to straightforward, essential simplicity, a thing of Zen-like beauty. iTunes, both the store and the brand, were created by his […]
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Inside Hiragino: A Closeup of Apple’s macOS Japanese Font
IntroductionThis article was originally published in Seybold Reports Volume 2, Number 18, December 2002 issue under the title, “Inside Hiragino: A Closeup of Apple’s OS X Japanese Font.” It contains interviews I had with Osamu Torinoumi, one of the lead Hiragino font designers after being introduced to him by then […]