A report last week revealed that Apple’s upcoming iOS 9 and OS X releases will bring a major typeface change, with Apple apparently aiming to offer the same system font across devices, no matter how large it is.
Called San Francisco, the new typeface is already used on the Apple Watch to increase readability, and a designer has now released a quick visual analysis of the font, and what makes it remarkable.
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Wenting Zhang, who provides a deep dive into one font each day on his Type Detailwebsite, has dedicated a day to the San Francisco font, explaining its features.
According to the image above, one of the advantages of the font is the “large x-height,” or the increased height of the lower-case letters compared to capital letters, which is one factor that can improve readability.
