The Blurred Word
November 11th, 2005
Apple’s iWork applications (Pages and Keynote) provide text styling options beyond those available through the standard Font panel; kerning, leading, and text shadow coloring among them. I wanted to use text with a colored shadow created in Pages to get the iTunes control label look in a mockup. I should be able to simply copy and paste, right? If only it were so…
Pages at the top, TextEdit in the middle, Curio at the bottom:

Ick.


New to this blog and for the most part as a UI designer it interests me, but I must say that sometimes you don’t make clear points in your entries by explaining exactly what the problems found and leave the users to make up their own mind….
Though generally good blog and good point on the drop shadows woes….