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This list of fonts contains every font shipped with Mac OS X 10.0 through macOS 10.14, including any that shipped with language-specific updates from Apple (primarily Korean and Chinese fonts). For fonts shipped only with Mac OS X 10.5, please see Apple's documentation.
Since Mac OS X Panther, a utility called Font Book has been included with the operating system allowing users to easily install fonts and do basic font management. In Mac OS X Snow Leopard (2009), Apple abandoned its proprietary .dfont format, instead bundling many fonts in the TrueType Collection format which was supported since Mac OS 8.5. [4]
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, EWorld, Apple Newton and iPod Mini font, known as System on the Apple Newton platform) System (1993, see Espy Sans)
Since the Old World ROM usually boots to Toolbox, most OSs have to be installed using a boot loader from inside Mac OS (BootX is commonly used for Linux installations). 68K-based Macs and NuBus Power Macs must have Mac OS installed to load another OS (even A/UX, which was an Apple product), usually with virtual memory turned off.
In Mac OS 8, introduced in 1997, the system font of Mac OS was changed to Charcoal. Charcoal was designed by David Berlow of Font Bureau, to be easier to read than Chicago, while retaining similar metrics for backward compatibility with existing application software.
A third-generation iPod using an altered Chicago typeface in its user interface. Chicago is a sans-serif typeface designed by Susan Kare for Apple Computer.It was used in the Macintosh operating system user interface between 1984 and 1997 and was an important part of Apple's brand identity.
The internal codenames of Mac OS X 10.0 through 10.2 are big cats. In Mac OS X 10.2, the internal codename "Jaguar" was used as a public name, and, for subsequent Mac OS X releases, big cat names were used as public names through until OS X 10.8 "Mountain Lion", and wine names were used as internal codenames through until OS X 10.10 "Syrah". [94]
The Apple Icon Image format (.icns) is an icon format used in Apple Inc.'s macOS.It supports icons of 16 × 16, 32 × 32, 48 × 48, 128 × 128, 256 × 256, 512 × 512 points at 1x and 2x scale, with both 1-and 8-bit alpha channels and multiple image states (example: open and closed folders).