AnyFont: $2 iOS App Lets You Install System-Wide Fonts

Erica Sadun, writing for TUAW:

AnyFont (US$1.99) enables you to add custom True Type and Open Type fonts to your iOS device for use in any application. When I first heard about this app, I was curious. How could an app like this “break sandboxing,” the security feature that keeps each app separate and safe?

Clever workaround to a frustrating limitation of iOS, but I can’t help but suspect that Apple is not going to allow this for long. If they wanted to allow the installation of additional fonts (and I dearly hope they do so in iOS 8), the feature would be built into the system.

Update: Lots of feedback from readers arguing that this is a totally legit, if obtuse to the layperson, feature of iOS 7 — and that Apple thus likely has no objection to AnyFont. Reminds of the days of Font/DA Mover.

★ Monday, 31 March 2014