Sitka font family
Sitka, a collaboration between type design and science, is a general-purpose serif typeface of Roman, Italic, Bold and Bold Italic. It is primarily designed for on screen use.
We recognize words by first recognizing individual letters, then using the letters to build a word [Larson, 2004; Rayner 'et.al', 2012]. Words become more readable by making each of the individual letters more recognizable. During the typeface’s development, we tested how well people could read each of the letters in the typeface, and used the test results to inform design decisions. While the test results needed to be applied conscientiously, we discovered that typeface design could be successfully integrated with scientific legibility testing.
The typeface is optically scaled, in other words different styles are optimized for setting at a specified output size or narrow range of sizes. Table below lists recommended sizes for different styles.
Style | Size range |
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Sitka Small | 0-9.5pt |
Sitka Text | 9.5-13.5pt |
Sitka Subheading | 13.5-18.5pt |
Sitka Heading | 18.5-23.5pt |
Sitka Display | 23.5-27.5pt |
Sitka Banner | 27.5-∞ |
To read more about Sitka design process please see https://www.researchgate.net/publication/309754147_Sitka_A_collaboration_between_type_design_and_science
Description | |
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Files | Sitka.ttc SitkaI.ttc SitkaB.ttc SitkaZ.ttc |
Styles & Weights | Sitka Small Sitka Small Italic Sitka Small Bold Sitka Small Bold Italic Sitka Text Sitka Text Italic Sitka Text Bold Sitka Text Bold Italic Sitka Subheading Sitka Subheading Italic Sitka Subheading Bold Sitka Subheading Bold Italic Sitka Heading Sitka Heading Italic Sitka Heading Bold Sitka Heading Bold Italic Sitka Display Sitka Display Italic Sitka Display Bold Sitka Display Bold Italic Sitka Banner Sitka Banner Italic Sitka Banner Bold Sitka Banner Bold Italic |
Designers | Matthew Carter |
Copyright | © 2018 Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved. |
Font vendor | Tiro Typeworks Ltd. and Carter & Cone, for Microsoft Corporation. |
Script Tags | dlng: 'Cyrl', 'Grek', 'Latn' slng: 'Cyrl', 'Grek', 'Latn' |
Code pages | 1252 Latin 1 1250 Latin 2: Eastern Europe 1251 Cyrillic 1253 Greek 1254 Turkish 1257 Windows Baltic Mac Roman Macintosh Character Set (US Roman) |
Fixed pitch | False |
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Product name | Font version |
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Windows 11 | See the Windows 11 page. |
Windows 10 | See the Windows 10 page. |
Windows 8.1 | See the Windows 8.1 page. |
Windows 8 | See the Windows 8 page. |
This typeface is also available within Office applications. For more information visit this page.