{"id":22316,"date":"2018-07-31T16:25:57","date_gmt":"2018-07-31T20:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=22316"},"modified":"2018-07-31T16:25:57","modified_gmt":"2018-07-31T20:25:57","slug":"rethinking-the-macos-font-picker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/31\/rethinking-the-macos-font-picker\/","title":{"rendered":"Rethinking the macOS Font Picker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swilliamsmith.com\/copy-of-graphic-design\">Sam William Smith<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/birchtree.me\/blog\/redesigning-the-macos-font-picker\/\">Matt Birchler<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/swilliamsmith.com\/copy-of-graphic-design\"><p>The font picker is one of the most commonly used drop down menus in any creative application. Despite this, the default font picker on macOS has remained largely unchanged since the early days.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>His example is from Keynote, one of the many apps that has implemented its own font picker because <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.apple.com\/documentation\/appkit\/nsfontpanel\">NSFontPanel<\/a> can be kind of clunky. Cocoa should provide more built-in ways to pick fonts.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sam William Smith (via Matt Birchler): The font picker is one of the most commonly used drop down menus in any creative application. Despite this, the default font picker on macOS has remained largely unchanged since the early days. His example is from Keynote, one of the many apps that has implemented its own font [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2018-07-31T20:25:59Z","apple_news_api_id":"b8f6f19f-5a57-4a97-9708-06f7a078ece8","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2018-07-31T20:26:02Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AuPbxn1pXSpeXCAb3oHjs6A","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[69,77,133,473,30,1529],"class_list":["post-22316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-cocoa","tag-design","tag-font","tag-keynote","tag-mac","tag-macos-10-13"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22316"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22317,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22316\/revisions\/22317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}