The balance between “custom fonts are a potential security/privacy issue” and “custom fonts should be easy to install and manage” is just completely out of whack on iOS.Īnyway, if you have fonts on your Mac that you wish you had on your iPad or iPhone, check out Fontcase. Computer platforms where it was hard or simply impossible to install custom fonts were something Mac users spent the entire decade of the 1990s mercilessly mocking.
But if you take a step back and ponder the situation, it’s bananas that iOS is a personal computing platform from Apple - Apple of all companies, the company that brought about the desktop publishing and computer-based graphic design revolutions - and they make it insanely hard to install fonts. iOS font installation isn’t complicated and finicky because Apple doesn’t realize that it’s complicated and finicky - it is this way for privacy and security reasons. But Fontcase makes this process on iOS so much easier than without it. This is so much harder and more complicated than on the Mac, where you just open fonts in the built-in Font Book utility and let it install them for you - and where, behind the scenes, installation is no more complicated than copying the fonts files to ~/Library/Fonts. It made sense to bring this capability to the mobile app.įontcase is a free-of-charge open source iPhone/iPad utility for installing fonts via custom configuration profiles, which is the only way to install arbitrary fonts on iOS. We all have ourįavorite editing fonts and they were easy to configure on macOS. Wanted to use custom fonts for their text on iOS. It all began with our simple text companion, Tot. I’m absolutely sure this is theįirst time that we’re announcing a release that isn’t our own app.
I’m pretty sure this is the first time we’re announcing a new Craig Hockenberry, writing at the Iconfactory blog:
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