Cracking the code behind Apple’s App Store promo card design(blog.equinux.com) |
Cracking the code behind Apple’s App Store promo card design(blog.equinux.com) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCR-B
So, it’s as ‘custom’ as Apple’s (pre San Francisco) systemfont Myriad, compared to Frutiger’s Frutiger, who said of the adaptation: “not badly done” while feeling that the similarities had gone “a little too far”… — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myriad_(typeface)
I wonder if Apple actually designed this font, or just asked for permission and extracted it from the built-in font of some industrial printing machine.
Are you considered Apple will shut you down somehow?
As long as you're not selling these cards, I don't think Apple would have a problem with them.
I don't understand this part. The aspect ratio of the box seems much more extreme than 3:1.
Yeah, sounds very convenient... How exactly would that work?
You could /try/ to do it looking at the baseline and cap heights of the text itself, but you wouldn't know the scale in either direction. I imagine those font identifiers would have been a lot better if they could have known those things.
You can generate codes to give you app away for free, or to grant a free in-app purchase, but that is all. There's no callbacks from the app store to your app to intercept.
Possibly you could do what you want with QR codes and launch URLs, or by doing camera+OCR stuff yourself inside your app.
Typefaces have never been copyrightable in the US, but digital fonts implementing a typeface have been since the early 90s.
The program moved to the Starbucks app a year or so ago but seems to have stopped.
