Typography on the iPhone just got more beautiful

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You can now install Hoefler & Co fonts on your iPhone and iPad, and use them in apps that support fonts.

Are you paying to licence fonts from Hoefler & Co (the New York type foundry so respected and well-established it even owns the domain typography.com)? Then you'll be pleased to know you can now download them directly from said site and install them on your iOS 7 devices for free.

Once you've done that: using Safari on your iPad or iPhone, head over to your Font Library page. You'll see a list of fonts you've licensed for your computer, each with an add to device link that installs them directly into your mobile device.

Hoefler & Co on iPad

Pages on the iPad, using Tungsten, Gotham, Sentinel, Surveyor, and Whitney respectively

Of course if you've not already bought the fonts for other purposes, it's expensive way to upgrade your screen aesthetics. Although if looking at beautiful type every day is that important to you...

Tom May
Tom May
Freelance journalist and editor

Tom May is an award-winning journalist specialising in art, design, photography and technology. His latest book, The 50 Greatest Designers (Arcturus Publishing), was published this June. He's also author of Great TED Talks: Creativity (Pavilion Books). Tom was previously editor of Professional Photography magazine, associate editor at Creative Bloq, and deputy editor at net magazine.