Skeena is a humanist sans serif with modulated stroke thickness, currently available as a variable font family or twelve individual static fonts from regular to black weight. Skeena was designed by John Hudson and Paul Hanslow, and initially released by Microsoft—with a limited character set in only regular and bold weights—as one of five possible candidates to replace the default MS Office font. Tiro Typeworks is pleased to be able to present version 2.00 of the Skeena family, now extended to a pan-European Latin character set, with additional style variants up to black, at which weight the stroke modulation is particularly striking.

The design for Skeena originated in work for Microsoft in 2018, as one of several concepts developed by Tiro Typeworks for possible new directions in Microsoft UI design. It was revised and extended starting in 2019, and tested in a variety of document creation and presentation applications. The generous proportions and open counters make it comfortable to read even at quite small sizes in e.g. spreadsheet cells, where the legibility of the numerals is particularly important.

Related types:
Skeena Display
Skeena Indigenous

Microsoft font family sold under M‑Product License.
TrueType OpenType format only.