The Pencil stylus: Diff’rent strokes from diff’rent sides

Promising news from the folks behind Paper:

FiftyThree introduces Surface Pressure—an industry-first feature that uses Pencil’s uniquely-designed tip to vary the lines you create. Surface Pressure comes to Pencil with the release of iOS 8 this Fall.

When I took the original iPad to visit master digital artist Bert Monroy & artists at Pixar, I noticed how their eyes lit up (after an initially tepid response) when they used their fingers to smudge pixels. Something magical happens when tools feel true to themselves, when you’re using your fingers not as crappy fake pens but as fingers.

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