Seravek

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Seravek
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Category Sans-serif
Classification Humanist
Designer(s) Eric Olson
Foundry Process Type Foundry
Date created2007

Seravek is a sans-serif typeface family designed by Eric Olson and released in 2007. [1] Olson described Seravek as having a neutral design of "near silence". [2] [3] Seravek is a member of the humanist style of sans-serifs, with features such as a true italic inspired by handwriting. [4] [5]

Sold commercially by the Process Type Foundry, Seravek is included as a system font in Apple's macOS operating system and as a default font in its Apple Books e-books application. [6] [7] [8]

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