Arguably a classic and highly legible type face like Sabon would have been a good alternative, personally, I feel it would not have produced the same overall aesthetic. The font appears to have a good balance between readability and legibility and not forgetting that it is appropriate for the user and the message it is conveying.

The glyph are well sized and spaced allowing for greater readability. The individual characters work well and have clearly been designed to complement each other when grouped into words, sentences, paragraphs etc. I have been struggling to understand why this choice in font is so disliked. The design is based on a Filmotype face called Alice/ Brooklyn, though the original source could be any of many very similar fonts from the early phototypesetting era (1950s–’60s). There is no designer credited in Noteworthy’s font copyright info, but the vendor field is assigned to Apple. See how the change in font in the first paragraph confuses the automated linespacing. Cute, but it doesn’t do a great job deciding when to jump the type to two lines. But it’s another disappointing default choice from Apple.Īlso, Notes wants to automatically align everything to the lines in the skeuomorphic background. Its very tight letterspacing and playful shapes make it even less readable and legible than Marker Felt.įortunately, unlike the hacks that were required of iOS users who wanted to free themselves of Marker Felt, the Notes app does allow you to engage the Fonts panel and use any font you wish. It’s a fun little retro ditty, but this choice is arguably worse than the notorious M arker Felt, used for the first versions of Notes in iOS and almost universally mocked. It is the default font for the new Notes app in OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion). You’re looking at Noteworthy, an Apple typeface that has been around on OS X for about a year (since Lion 10.7), but was unknown to most users unless they stumbled on it in their font menu. These are the most common typefaces in the database, but there are many more.

Macos x 10.8