The Art of the Font
summary
Walks the font timeline from metal type to OpenType then demonstrates concrete code: extracts glyph outlines with Core Text, converts them to CGPaths and images, hits a stroking-vs-filling bug and fixes it, and notes how expensive and fiddly core text proves. Shows practical use of TextKit to build a circular text container without reimplementing selection, and uses UIFontMetrics and Dynamic Type (including scaledValue) to keep type and layout in sync, recommends testing with the Accessibility Inspector; demos compile and behave as described.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:51Introductions
- 9:02Apple
- 16:31Text
- 20:56TextKit
- 25:20Dynamic Type
- 31:46Testing
- 34:06Closing Thoughts
- 38:46UI Font Metric
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