
Some variants have two optical sizes: "display" for large and "text" for small text. These include chiseled, stenciled, semi-rounded, dotted, prisma, railed, and slab-serif versions. Stylistic fonts exist, which are mainly present in the iOS 16 Lock Screen, Apple Cash, watchOS Watch Faces, and several promotional materials. Note: SF has the codename SFNS in macOS and SFUI in iOS, regardless of the official name. Monospaced body text in software such as Terminal, Console, and Xcode The macOS Catalina font Galvji is similar to the San Francisco variant SF Pro Text but has lower leading and bigger spacing. It is the first new typeface designed at Apple in nearly twenty years and has been inspired by Helvetica and DIN.

It was first released to developers on November 18, 2014. San Francisco is a neo-grotesque typeface made by Apple Inc.
