Skia (typeface)


Category	Sans-serif
Designer(s)	Matthew Carter
Foundry	Apple Computer
Variations	Cadmus

Skia is a humanist sans-serif typeface designed by Matthew Carter for Apple Computer in 1994.^[1] Skia is Greek for "shadow,"and the letterforms take inspiration from 1st century BC Greek writing. The typeface was the first QuickDraw GX font, featured in System 7.5 and higher, including Mac OS X. It is the only font Apple has shipped with their OS which makes use of TrueType variable axes (a feature akin to Adobe's "multiple master" technology).

Skia was also the code name for the QuickDraw GX project.

↑ "Matthew Carter". Design Museum + British Council. Retrieved 25 April 2010.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Skia.

Skia at myfonts.com

OS X typefaces

Latin, Greek, Cyrillic	American Typewriter Andale Mono Arial Arial Unicode MS Athelas Avenir, Avenir Next Baskerville MT Big Caslon Bodoni 72 Bradley Hand Bold Brush Script MT Chalkboard Chalkduster Cochin Comic Sans Charter Copperplate Courier Courier New Didot DIN Euphemia UCAS Futura Geneva Georgia Gill Sans Helvetica, Helvetica Neue Herculanum Hoefler Text Iowan Old Style Impact Lucida Grande Luminari Marion Marker Felt Menlo Microsoft Sans Serif Monaco Noteworthy Optima Palatino Papyrus Phosphate Pilgiche PT Fonts San Francisco Savoye LET Seravek SignPainter Skia Snell Roundhand STIX Fonts Superclarendon Tahoma Times, Times New Roman Trattatello Trebuchet MS Verdana Zapfino Apple Chancery Apple Braille

Non-alphabetic	Apple Color Emoji Apple Symbols Symbol Webdings Zapf Dingbats

List of typefaces included with OS X

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