Skia

Skia

Infobox font
name = Skia


style = Sans-serif
date = 1993
creator = Matthew Carter
foundry = Apple Computer
variations = Cadmus

Skia is a humanist sans-serif typeface designed by Matthew Carter for Apple Computer in 1993. "Skia" is Greek for "shadow,"and the letterforms take inspiration from first century B.C. 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.

External links

* [http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/apple/skia/ Skia at myfonts.com]


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