San Francisco (font)
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| font | San Francisco |
| category | Sans-serif |
| Font designer | Apple Inc. |
| Creation | 2014 |
San Francisco is a font from Apple Inc. and is the system font that has been used on Apple operating systems since 2014. It is a sans serif font with adaptive letter and line spacing. It is similar to the Helvetica and DIN fonts and in 2014 was the first Apple-designed font in almost 20 years.
San Francisco is licensed exclusively to registered third-party developers developing applications for the iOS , iPadOS , macOS and tvOS operating systems . It is also used for the keyboard typeface of the MacBook introduced in 2015, replacing VAG Rounded . Apple began to position their typography uniformly in all sub-areas.
At WWDC 2015 it was announced that San Francisco would replace Helvetica Neue as the new system font for OS X El Capitan (10.11) and iOS 9.
San Francisco (1984)
In 1984 Apple had released a font called San Francisco designed by Susan Kare . There is no connection between that font and the one published in 2014.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Owen Williams: Meet Apple's new font, designed for its smartwatch . The Next Web. 18th November 2014.
- ^ John Brownlee: Apple Releases Its Most Important Typeface in 20 Years . Fast Company. 19th November 2014.
- ^ Susan Kare: World Class Cities. On: Folklore.org. Retrieved June 9, 2015.