On the Classic Macintosh envorionment there were several fonts: Geneva, Chicago, Times, Courier... there was also a font called New York, which printed looked pretty classical, and on the screen it had a very coquette, sophisticated forms, that reminds us to the needlepoint style.
With Mac OS X, this font got discontinued. At least until 2019, when it was re-introduced on Apple Books. As the screens were better (the fabulous retina displays), there was no pretty pixelated characters anymore, but a font that was very similar to the printed version of NY font.
With this careful pixel-to-pixel reconstruction of the old New York 12pt font, we can enjoy again the very exquisite taste and the true art that Susan Kare had shown when she crafted this font almost 40 years ago.
I have done the Plain, Bold and Italic fonts. I didn't dared to do the italic bold, and i really don't think anyone shall ever need it.
On the Classic Macintosh envorionment there were several fonts: Geneva, Chicago, Times, Courier... there was also a font called New York, which printed looked pretty classical, and on the screen it had a very coquette, sophisticated forms, that reminds us to the needlepoint style.
With Mac OS X, this font got discontinued. At least until 2019, when it was re-introduced on Apple Books. As the screens were better (the fabulous retina displays), there was no pretty pixelated characters anymore, but a font that was very similar to the printed version of NY font.
With this careful pixel-to-pixel reconstruction of the old New York 12pt font, we can enjoy again the very exquisite taste and the true art that Susan Kare had shown when she crafted this font almost 40 years ago.
I have done the Plain, Bold and Italic fonts. I didn't dared to do the italic bold, and i really don't think anyone shall ever need it.
Last week my beloved iMac stopped working for good. It's been more than a decade of a fantastic relationship, but now I have to accept the fact that it won't be with me anymore... With that in mind, I've collected these vintage Mac icons, most (maybe all) made by the great Susan Kare in the best 80's. Curiously, you will see that many of them have remained until today with very few modifications, but others (that dot matrix printer, those faxes, those floppy disks...) have definitely passed into the History. I remember with particular displeasure the d*** Bomb, which appeared unexpectedly when the computer crashed -too frecuently- and you then lost all the work not saved manually. Freaky old times. My favourite character still being Clarus, the dogcow (at the Z, of course). Hope you like them.
A: Mac-happy / B: Mac-unhappy / C: Mac-working / D: Bin / E: Bomb / F: Watch / G: Save / H: Save-as / I: File-text / J: File-vector / K: File-graphic / L: New / M: New-text / N: New-vector / O: New-graphic / P: New-type / Q: Compress / R: Font-kit / S: Font-stack / T: Alert / U: Prompt / V: AppleLink / W: Fax / X: Fax-to / Y: Command / Z: Dogcow (Clarus).
a: Print / b: Arrow / c: Hand / d: Inbox / e: Inbox-in / f: Inbox-out / g: Mail-drown / h: Mail-wings / i: News-headlines / j: Newspaper / k: Easy-access / l: Quick-access / m: Direct-access / n: Folder / o: Folder-speedy / p: Folder-hierarchy / q: Compress / r: Box / s: Desk-drawer / t: Top-drawer / u: Global / v: Library / w: Personal-archive / x: Threaded / y: Volume / z: Zoom.
0: OK / 1: New-blank-file / 2: Pencil / 3: Eraser / 4: Lasso / 5: (Idem) / 6: Brush / 7: Fill / 8: Spray / 9: Apple-logo.
A recreation of the first San Francisco from 1984, originally called Ransom, by the incomparable Susan Kare.
I noticed that among the various recreations of the original bitmap fonts for the Macintosh, this iconic design was missing, so I decided to fill the gap.
I used an image rather than the font as a reference, and don’t know the intended point size, the spacing could be off, and the number of characters is unfortunately very limited.
No saben, pero parece que me encariñé mucho de la tipografía Monaco_15 de Susan Kare (Aunque tenga sus Errores).
Lo que pasa con la tipografía es que primero hice la versión bitmap para Windows (.FON) y lo extendí a todos los caracteres Unicode para este formato para que no salga un error en el soporte de idiomas.
Después de muchos años, pude regresar a la pagina que hice esta versión de Monaco_15 llamándolo “MonacoTTF” y lo comencé a desarrollar en el 10/1/2022 y logré extender la cantidad de símbolos disponibles para la fuente.
Recomiendo que lo descarguen su versión TrueType porque ya e comprobado que al descargarlo en OpenType, contendrá errores.
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La Licencia: SIL Open Font License Update6 15/12/2020
Autora: Susan Kare | Page
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[05/02/2025] -??:??-
[09/09/2025] -19:28-
Well, it's been a while because I've run out of fonts I want to convert/build. This one is LeConte from GEOS on the Commodore 64. It is pretty much a clone of Susan Kare's Chicago for the Apple systems, so you can use it as a pixelly Apple font in your works.
Wouldn't have minded redoing this with curves, but decided on going with full retro pixelled corners, as that's my main schtick.
It's the fancy cursive font from "resource2.dat" from Cube World. Turns out, its actually the 'Venice' font by Susan Kare & Bill Atkinson from the original classic Macintosh, so I've added all the remaining characters from the original font which the cube world version didn't have.
Cube World is Copyright 2010-2019 Picroma e.K.