Nokia N9 default font metrics to change in future update

Via: @anidel

Editor: Andrew Olmsted

According to the Nokia Developer blog, the N9 (and presumably the N950, although it wasn't specifically mentioned) will be getting updated font metrics for the default Nokia Pure Text font. The most significant change is that by default, the text will take approximately 20% more space vertically, i.e. the height of the "bounding box" of text items will increase. [...] Whether this has any impact on your application, depends on how the UI layout has been built. In many cases, there is no impact or the change does not really matter. Developers should be aware of the upcoming change and plan accordingly. The changes in the screenshot in the blog post did look quite evident and it could make a big impact on application layout. It was not announced when the update would be available, but it sounds like it will come in a full system update.