Shop desktop cutting machines including the Silhouette Cameo plus our selection of cutting materials and other. His passion and values live on in the design of this typeface family. Discover the creative world of Silhouette. Microsofts typography teams dedicate the Sitka family of typefaces to the memory of Bill Hill and his vision of Reading 2.0. Call Number: HABS AK,17-SITKA,1- Medium: Photo(s): 24 Color Transparencies: 4 Measured Drawing(s): 7 Data Page(s): 10 Photo Caption Page(s): 4 Please use the following steps to determine whether you need to fill out a call slip in the Prints and Photographs Reading Room to view the original item(s). As a member of the Typography and Advanced Reading Technology teams, Bill revolutionized on-screen typography by championing the creation of the OpenType specification, ClearType rendering technology, and landmark typefaces such as Verdana, Georgia, Calibri, and Meiryo. This approach of combining science, technology, and craftsmanship to produce an excellent reading experience on screen was pioneered at Microsoft by Bill Hill. Character distribution range:Basic Latin,Latin-1 Supplement,Latin Extended-A,Latin Extended-B,Spacing Modifier Letters,Combining Diacritical Marks,Greek and Coptic,Cyrillic,Latin Extended Additional,General Punctuation,Superscripts and Subscripts,Currency Symbols,Letterlike. We recognize words by rst recognizing individual letters, then using the letters to build a word Larson, 2004 Rayner et.al, 2012. It is primarily designed for on screen use. Different versions of each letter were tested in recognition studies, and the results were incorporated into the final design. Sitka Small Italic Version 1.12 font (Font family name: Sitka Font style name: Small Italic), 789 characters in total. Sitka, a collaboration between type design and science, is a general-purpose serif typeface of Roman, Italic, Bold and Bold Italic. In a new and unique methodology, scientific legibility studies were directly integrated into the Sitka design process. Used in concert, the Sitka typeface family brings readability, visual interest and typographic consistency to the page and screen. At the upper end of the size range Sitkas styles have a warm and elegant personality with the narrower forms and tighter spacing appropriate for display. The smaller styles are workhorses, highly legible in text, with sturdy structures and generous spacing. Each of its six styles has been designed to excel at a specific size. Sitka is a family of optically scaled typefaces.