Examples (Can only be seen on an iOS device)
Headers
font: -apple-system-headline;
This is a headline that is quite long with a lot of letters and words
font: -apple-system-subheadline;
This is a subheadline that is also quite long with many characters
font: -apple-system-short-headline;
Short headline
font: -apple-system-short-subheadline;
Short subheadline
Body Copy
font: -apple-system-body;
You can say, "I love you," in Helvetica. And you can say it with Helvetica Extra Light if you want to be really fancy. Or you can say it with the Extra Bold if it's really intensive and passionate, you know, and it might work.
- Robert Bringhurst
font: -apple-system-tall-body;
Space in typography is like time in music. It is infinitely divisible, but a few proportional intervals can be much more useful than a limitless choice of arbitrary quantities.
- Robert Bringhurst
font: -apple-system-short-body;
Typographic style is founded not on any one technology of typesetting or printing, but on the primitive yet subtle craft of writing.
- Robert Bringhurst
Captions & Footnotes
font: -apple-system-caption;
font: -apple-system-caption2;