San Francisco (sans-serif typeface) for the design and development of applications for Apple's platforms. San Francisco (sans-serif typeface) San Francisco is a neo-grotesque sans-serif typeface made by Apple Inc. It was first released to developers on November 18, 2014. It is the first new typeface designed at Apple in nearly 20 years and has been inspired by Helvetica and FF DIN. The San Francisco typeface has four variants: "SF" (or "SF UI") for macOS, iOS, and tvOS; "SF Compact" for watchOS; "SF Mono" (based on SF Compact) for the Xcode application; and "SF Serif" for Apple Books. The main difference is that the sides
Garamond types rather than designed alongside them as complementary matches. While his italics have been considered less impressive than his roman typefaces, he (alongside, according to Vervliet, Granjon in particular) was one of the early printers to establish the modern tradition that the italic capitals should slope as the lower case does, rather than remain upright as Roman square capitals do. Garamond designed type for the Greek alphabet from the beginning of his attested career, but his most celebrated work in Greek, the "Grecs du roi" fonts, commissioned for the French government in 1540, are very different to his Latin designs: