Skia is a

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sans-serif

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Matthew Carter Matthew Carter (born 1 October 1937) is an English type designer.A Man of Letters

for

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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 QuickDraw GX font, and has been pre-installed in

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since System 7.5 (1994). 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

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, were adopting Apple's GX variations as the basis of the variations specification inside

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1.8, and since that announcement Skia had been 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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