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Geneva
Geneva is a neo-grotesque or "industrial" sans-serif typeface designed by Susan Kare for Apple Computer.
About Geneva
Geneva is a neo-grotesque or "industrial" sans-serif typeface designed by Susan Kare for Apple Computer. It is one of the oldest fonts shipped with Macintosh operating systems. The original version was a bitmap font, but later versions were converted to TrueType when that technology became available on the Macintosh platform. Because this Macintosh font is not commonly available on other platforms, many users find Verdana, Microsoft Sans Serif or Arial to be an acceptable substitute. Unlike MS Sans Serif (formerly "Helv") as was used in Windows, the outline version of Geneva was not consistent in glyph shape with the original bitmap versions. The significant stylistic and metrics variations between the bitmap sizes made it difficult to create an outline version consistent with all of them.
From the Wikipedia article “Geneva (typeface)”, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Using Geneva in a book
Test this typeface at both text and display sizes before committing; print a sample page at final size.
Commercial typefaces require a licence that covers embedding in PDFs and ebooks; check the foundry's licence before you publish.
Sources & data
- Structured data from Wikidata Q622571 (CC0).
- Summary text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).