New York is a transitional American serif typeface created by

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. It was released to developers in June 2019. It is released by Apple freely but solely for use in developing or creating mock-ups of software on Apple platforms. Originally codenamed Serif UI, it was first showcased in WWDC 2018 on June 4, 2018 when the new

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app was introduced. It was exclusive to Apple Books on iOS 12; as a result, it was not available for download on the Apple Developer site. It was later released in four

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s with six weights each, under the name New York in June 2019 on the Apple Developer site. The font includes

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features for lining and

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in both proportional and tabular widths. Despite Apple having created a typeface with the same name with the

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format for the original Macintosh (later converted to

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vector format), it is unrelated to this design.

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Similar to

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's usage, Apple also limits the usage of New York by others. According to its license, it is restricted to the design and development of applications for Apple's platforms.

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{{OS X typefaces Apple Inc. typefaces Transitional serif typefaces Typefaces with optical sizes Typefaces with text figures Typefaces and fonts introduced in 2019

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