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January 31, 2012

Two Makes a Trend

Both Tim (Letter to Jane) and Buzz (Tumblr) wrote today pleading for better text tools on iOS. Natalie and I have recently felt similar pain working on a text-heavy iOS project. I assumed this was a research problem — how could iOS not include superior text handling? — until I actually started doing research and quickly found myself muddling through the CoreText reference in PDF… suboptimal.

There are a kajillion examples of CoreText code on Github that may be of use, including projects like Attributed Label, FTCoreText, DTCoreText, and the OmniGroup's text well inspector and RTF reader^*. But if you are ready to give up, this gallery of beautiful (and free) font treatments available from Google is impressive.

Later, via twitter, CoreTextToy by Jonathan Wight.

^* That may be what you want, Tim.

Jan 31, 2012 6:09:58 PM | Web/Tech

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