Skia is a

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sans-serif

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for Apple Computer in 1994. ''Skia'' is

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for "shadow", and the letterforms take inspiration from stone-carved 1st century BC Greek writing. The typeface was the first

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font, and has been pre-installed in Mac operating systems since System 7.5 (1994), and is in the current Mac OS. Skia includes "GX variations" technology that – if an application offers the UI – allows its weight to be adjusted smoothly between thin and bold, and its width between narrow and extended. (Adobe's " multiple master" technology was similar.) In 2016 it was announced that several technology companies, including

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and Adobe are adopting Apple's GX variations as the basis of the variations specification inside

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1.8, and since that announcement Skia has been much used to demonstrate the capabilities of the technology.

References

External links

Skia at myfonts.com

TrueType GX Variations — Skia by Matthew Carter
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