Podium Sans

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A screenshot of iPodWizard showing the Podium Sans character set.

The display screen of a 5^th generation iPod, playing the song Feel Good Inc. by the band Gorillaz

Podium Sans is the typeface used on all models of iPod with color displays.

When the iPod photo was first announced Apple claimed ^[1] that the device featured a "new Myriad typeface," stating "Now in living color, it's easier to read than ever. That’s thanks in part to the clarity of the display — it offers 220x176-pixel resolution — and in part to the new Myriad typeface." The use of Adobe Myriad would have been the first example of Apple using the same font in branding and user interface and indeed the high-res Photoshop mock-ups clearly used the font. However, at the time few noticed that the font on the devices was missing Myriad's trademark features, such as its 'k' and 'K', its splayed 'M' and distinctive 'y'. Whether Podium Sans started life as Myriad or another font is up for debate, but strangely Apple no longer mentions the Myriad typeface in connection with the iPod user interface. Searching Apple.com for Myriad results in no results mentioning the font.