Apple did not make TrueType versions of all of the funky fonts, but they did make versions of the more businesslike fonts, such as Helvetica and Palatino. In 1991, System 7 introduced TrueType fonts that were scaleable to any size. The Venice font was a favorite of many, since it was an easy to read script-like font. The San Francisco font, which looked like a ransom note, lent itself to playful documents. There were dingbat fonts (picture fonts) like Cairo and Mobile. These shipped with System 6 and earlier versions of the Mac OS.īut early Macs also had a bunch of funky fonts that gave the Mac loads of character. Back in 1990, when I started working with Macs, there were a number of standard fonts that are still familiar today, such as Chicago, Geneva, Helvetica, Palatino, and Times. When the Macintosh first shipped, it had a number of bitmapped fonts. I am on my way to an unusual suggestion that I hope you will consider. Here I am going to discuss the fonts that Apple has shipped with the Mac. If you are unfamiliar with terms like “bitmapped” or “outline” fonts, you might want to read that article first. In A History of Font Technologies, I talked a bit about font technologies on the Mac.
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