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Re: Apple Design Resources

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Post by sirn »

petilon wrote: post #9

Does license allow use of symbol font on the web version of my app as well?

License agreements from the package:

> Your use of Symbols obtained from Apple’s SF Font is limited to creating mock-ups of user interfaces for software products running on Apple’s iOS, iPadOS, macOS and tvOS operating systems and your use of Symbols obtained from Apple’s SF Compact Font is limited to creating mock-ups of user interfaces for software products running on Apple’s iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS and watchOS operating systems.

So likely not.

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Post by isodev »

camillomiller wrote: post #4

Is this new, or was it already available for a while?

It seems most Sketch and XD templates and libraries have been recently updated (and extended) but the page has been available for many years... featuring design resources for current OS and product versions.

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Post by jstsch »

PetrBrzyBrzek wrote: post #2

It’s interesting that there is no Figma links.

Believe it or not, most graphic designers are still using Adobe tools. Already hard to get them to move over to Sketch, but it's becoming the norm for digital design. Figma is popular in UI circles, but an exception outside of them.

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Post by HugoDaniel »

spoonjim wrote: post #14
mattkevan wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Probably because Sketch is a native Mac app, whereas Figma is not.

To further clarify: Sketch is only available on Mac, so it's clear why Apple loves it.

Please file a bug report if the Adobe XD links are not working for you

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Post by JusticeJuice »

PetrBrzyBrzek wrote: post #2

It’s interesting that there is no Figma links.

Making the company jump from sketch to figma is bit of a mission (source - I've done it before). The way figma handles frames, is much different to the way sketch handles artboards, auto-import doesn't work as well as you'd hope.

They would have massive numbers of designers, all needing visual assets. If you've got a library to provide consistency to them, moving that library over to another tool is a big mission, no matter how good it is.

I think you'd find figma gets healthy use at apple, like most of the work of UI design is trying a bunch of different solutions, collaboration and feedback, prototyping - I think figma would crop up commonly for that type of work - the 'shaping' phase.

The final step of 'ok make everything look apple' isn't that big compared to everything you've done before that point, jumping tools then isn't the end of the earth.

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Post by ChrisMarshallNY »

petilon wrote: post #9

Does license allow use of symbol font on the web version of my app as well?

Nope. SF Symbols is quite useful (for native apps). There are libraries of things like ISO symbols, though. Here's one that I have used: https://github.com/tabler/tabler-icons

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Post by wwalexander »

gogopuppygogo wrote: post #8
camillomiller wrote: post #4

Is this new, or was it already available for a while?

I have searched for these types of templates as little as a year ago and didn’t see this. I would expect pretty new.

The Internet Archive shows Photoshop, Sketch, and XD templates going back to at least June 2017 [1]. I definitely remember using the Photoshop icon templates in 2019.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20170606171244/https://developer...

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