Typography vs Cyborg

Overview

Typography

Stacks38

Followers26

Votes0

Cyborg

Stacks3

Followers4

Votes0

GitHub Stars303

Forks19

Typography vs Cyborg: What are the differences?

What is Typography? The visual art of creating written words. It is the art and technique of arranging type to make written language legible, readable, and appealing when displayed. This term is also applied to the style, arrangement, and appearance of the letters, numbers, and symbols created by the process.

What is Cyborg? Display Android Vectordrawables on iOS. It is a partial port of Android's VectorDrawable to iOS. It is intended as a replacement for UIImages, Icon Fonts, and Apple's PDF vector image option.

Typography and Cyborg can be primarily classified as "Fonts" tools.

Some of the features offered by Typography are:

Character Sets
Uppercase Style
Number Style

On the other hand, Cyborg provides the following key features:

Full theming support of individual elements of an illustration, beyond simple image tinting or changing the text color in an Icon Font
Ability to use one asset for both platforms, simplifying the design -> engineering pipeline
Assets are resolution independent

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Detailed Comparison

Typography	Cyborg
It is the art and technique of arranging type to make written language legible, readable, and appealing when displayed. This term is also applied to the style, arrangement, and appearance of the letters, numbers, and symbols created by the process.	It is a partial port of Android's VectorDrawable to iOS. It is intended as a replacement for UIImages, Icon Fonts, and Apple's PDF vector image option.
Character Sets; Uppercase Style; Number Style; Fractions & Scientific; Punctuation; Latin Accents	Full theming support of individual elements of an illustration, beyond simple image tinting or changing the text color in an Icon Font; Ability to use one asset for both platforms, simplifying the design -> engineering pipeline; Assets are resolution independent; RTL support; Easily convertible from SVG using Android Studio or third-party tools
Statistics
GitHub Stars -	GitHub Stars 303
GitHub Forks -	GitHub Forks 19
Stacks 38	Stacks 3
Followers 26	Followers 4
Votes 0	Votes 0
Integrations
Vue.js JavaScript Susy Bootstrap Webpack Ember.js Instapage CSS 3 Sketch Evernote	Android Studio iOS

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