City Fonts, the T-shirt
Sold on
www.supersuperficial.com

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.

 


Cairo was a bitmap dingbat font, most famous for the dogcow at the z character position.

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.