Apple’s rise and fall in typography

Thanks to implementing a GUI that people could actually use and inventing GUI standard principles such as the desktop metaphor and pull-down menues Apple spearheaded not only the GUI revolution, but with it they revolutionised printing and typography.

That was in the eighties, but looking at Apple’s recent developments it appears as if they are now abandoning all the visual and typographic excellence they used to be known for.

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