Standard UI for Advanced Typography Options

Fonts aren't just about weights, italics or line spacing. They also includes features such as support for ligatures, fractional forms or higher legibility alternatives. While macOS has a standard interface for advanced typography options. iOS seems to lack any such standard.

This interface tries to combine the interface for text formatting in the iWork apps with more advanced options. The key here is, such an interface shouldn't feel cluttered but at the same time provide all the functionality. And I've tried to mitigate that by grouping the elements.

So the grouping goes like this:
1. Elements and Options that depend on the typeface.
2. Size and Colour
3. Alignment options
4. Spacing between characters, lines and paragraphs

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Such interfaces would be of great help to professional applications. Such as Document Editors, Page Layout Editors, Graphic Design and Photo Editing Tools.

Posted on Jan 18, 2018

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