Fonts

How to get the new iOS 14.2 emojis on your jailbroken device

Joaquim Barbosa ∙ Updated March 5, 2021

The last few iOS point releases had been all quiet on the emoji front, but iOS and iPadOS 14.2 brought over 100 novelties to users, including such ragers as "Pinched Fingers" (that emphatic gesture which often accompanies a hackneyed impression of an Italian), "Bubble Tea", "Ninja", and "Tamale" (at last!). Whilst stock users will have to update to iOS 14.2 to make use of these little beauties, jailbroken users don't have to, thanks to developer Poomsmart.

Choosing between losing your jailbreak by updating to iOS 14.2, or being unable to spam your friends with the Dodo emoji, is thankfully not necessary. We'll show you how to get the best of both worlds.

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How to change the font size and style on Kindle Paperwhite

Sandy Writtenhouse ∙ Updated September 6, 2022
Amazon Kindle with Reading Glasses

If there’s one thing you can appreciate with an eReader instead of a physical book, it’s the ability to change the display. With a physical book, you’re stuck with the size and style of the text just the way it is. But with a reader like Kindle Paperwhite, you can put away your reading glasses because you can make the text the size you want it. And this short tutorial shows you how.

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How to use quick styles to format text in Notes on iPhone

Sandy Writtenhouse ∙ Updated June 27, 2022
Use Quick Styles in Notes on iPhone on Table

The Notes app has seen its share of updates over time, and with iOS 14 and later, it received another improvement. You can use the quick styles gesture to change the font to bold, italics, a heading, or a title. Of course, you had the ability to change the text in Notes on iPhone before, but now you can do it faster than ever. Here’s how to use quick styles in Notes on iPhone.

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How to make text bigger in Safari for all webpages

Sandy Writtenhouse ∙ Updated July 13, 2022
Make text bigger Safari on Mac

While there’s sort of an unofficial standard when it comes to text size for a webpage, you’ll come across one or two along the way that use a very small font. And even if you don’t, you might simply have a little trouble viewing the text on pages clearly.

What you might not realize is that with one simple setting, you can always see the text on pages in Safari in a larger size. Here’s how to do that on Mac, iPhone, and iPad.

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Compactor brings the Apple Watch’s font to your pwned iPhone or iPad

Anthony Bouchard ∙ February 24, 2020

If you have an Apple Watch, then you’ve undoubtedly noticed that it sports an entirely different system font than your iPhone does. Typically, you’d need to install performance-impacting or battery-guzzling add-ons to change your system font, but with a new and free jailbreak tweak called Compactor by iOS developer Jamie Bishop, you can bring the Apple Watch’s native font to your iPhone without these ill side-effects.

As depicted in the screenshot examples above, the Apple Watch’ system font, also known as SF Compact, is both smaller and more legible than the iPhone’s native system font.

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How to adjust character spacing in Pages on Mac

Sandy Writtenhouse ∙ Updated November 16, 2022
Character spacing in the Pages app on Mac

When you’re composing a document in Pages, you have a lot of formatting options for your text. Like most word processing apps, you can change the font style, size, color, and make it bold or italics. One other adjustment you might want to make is to the character spacing.

Maybe you want the text to stretch the width of the document without resizing it. Or maybe you have a certain word or sentence that you want to stand out.

If you haven’t checked out the character spacing option in Pages on your Mac, this tutorial shows you how to make those adjustments.

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