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The fonts Chicago, New York, Geneva, and Monaco were all designed by Susan Kare in 1983. After designing the first few fonts, the team decided they needed to adopt a naming-convention. First, they settled on using the names of stops along the Paoli, Pennsylvania commuter train line: Overbrook, Merion, Ardmore, and Rosemont. Steve Jobs had liked the idea of using cities as the names, but they had to be "world class" cities, and so the naming-convention of using the names of world cities was chosen. |
Chicago (sans-serif) was the default Macintosh system font in systems 1-7.6. Geneva (sans-serif) is designed for small point sizes and prevalent in all versions of the Mac user interface. London (blackletter) was an Old English-style font. Los Angeles (script) was a thin font that emulated handwriting. Monaco (sans-serif, monospaced) is a fixed-width font well-suited for 9-12 pt use. New York (serif) was a Times Roman-inspired font. San Francisco was a whimsical font where each character looked as if it was a cut-out from a newspaper. Venice (script) was a calligraphic font designed by Bill Atkinson. |