List of Apple typefaces
This is a list of typefaces made by/for Apple Inc.
Serif
Proportional
- Apple Garamond (1983), designed to replace Motter Tektura in the Apple logo. Not included on Macs in a user-available form.
- New York (1984, by Susan Kare), a serif font. Converted to ttf by Charles Bigelow but no longer installed on Macs. Only a roman style, without complementary italic.
- Toronto (1984, Susan Kare)
- Athens (1984, Susan Kare), slab serif.
- Hoefler Text (1991, Jonathan Hoefler), still included with every Mac. Four-member family with an ornament font.
- Espy Serif (1993, bitmapped font, dropped with Mac OS 8)[1]
- Fancy (1993), Apple Newton font based on Times Roman
Sans-serif
Proportional
- Chicago (1984 by Susan Kare, pre-Mac OS 8 system font, also used by early iPods)
- Geneva (1984 by Susan Kare), sans-serif font inspired by Helvetica. Converted to TrueType format and still installed on Macs.
- Espy Sans (1993, Apple eWorld, Apple Newton and iPod Mini font, known as System on the Apple Newton platform)
- System (1993, see Espy Sans)
- eWorld Tight (1993), Apple eWorld font based on Helvetica Compressed
- Simple (1993), Apple Newton font, based on Geneva)
- Skia (1993 Matthew Carter), demonstration of QuickDraw GX typography in the style of inscriptions from antiquity. Still installed on Macs.
- Charcoal (1999, Mac OS 8 system font)
- Lucida Grande (2000 by Charles Bigelow and Kris Holmes, used in OS X)
- San Francisco (2014), the new system font on Apple Watch and other Apple devices from winter 2015
- Myriad (Apple's corporate font and used by the iPod photo), not installed on Macs in a user-accessible format. Designed by Robert Slimbach and Carol Twombly.
Monospaced
- Monaco (1984, Susan Kare) Bitmap, later converted to TrueType. Still included with Macs, but default monospace typeface is now Menlo.
- Menlo (2009, Jim Lyles), based on the open-source font Bitstream Vera.
Script and handwritten
Apple Chancery by Kris Holmes, commissioned by Apple in 1993. Holmes had been taught calligraphy at Reed College, by the same tutors as Steve Jobs (though not at the same time). The font's goal was to include complex alternates to somewhat mimic the verve of Renaissance scribes.
- Venice (1984, Bill Atkinson), bitmap script inspired by chancery cursive. Never converted to ttf.
- Los Angeles (1984, Susan Kare), bitmap casual script font. Never converted to ttf.
- Apple Casual (1993, used on Apple Newton)
- Apple Chancery (1993, Kris Holmes), a test-bed for contextual alternates in font programming. Still installed on Macs.[2]
Miscellaneous
- Apple Symbols (2003, Unicode symbol/dingbat font)
- Cairo (1984 by Susan Kare, a dingbat font best known for the dogcow in the 0x7A (lowercase Z) position)
- LastResort (2001 by Michael Everson, Mac OS X Fallback font)
- London (1984, Susan Kare), bitmap blackletter. Never converted to ttf.
- San Francisco (1984, Susan Kare), bitmap font in a 'ransom note' style. Never converted to ttf.
See also
References
- ↑ Ploudre, Jonathan. "Using the Espy font". Low End Mac. Retrieved 13 September 2015.
- ↑ Wang, Yue. "Interview with Charles Bigelow" (PDF). TUGboat. Retrieved 13 September 2015.
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