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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.
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 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.
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.
Font Book is opened by default whenever the user clicks on a new .otf or .ttf font file. The user can view the font and install it, at which point the font will be copied to a centralized folder of user-installed fonts and be available for all apps to use. [1] It can be used to browse all installed fonts.
The dogcow, named Clarus, is a bitmapped image designed by Apple for the demonstration of page layout in the classic Mac OS. The sound it makes is "Moof!", a portmanteau of "moo" and "woof". [ 1 ] Clarus became the archetype of surrealistic humor in the corporate culture of the original Macintosh group, particularly as the mascot of Apple’s ...
AAT font features are supported on Mac OS 8.5 and above and all versions of macOS. The cross-platform ICU library provided basic AAT support for left-to-right scripts. [ 1 ] HarfBuzz version 2 has added AAT shaping support, an open-source implementation of the technology [ 2 ] which Chrome / Chromium as version 72 and LibreOffice as version 6.3 ...
In Mac OS 8, Charcoal replaced Chicago as the default system font. Chicago continued to be distributed as a standard component of the system, and Apple even urged developers to keep designing user interfaces for the Chicago typeface, since the new alternate fonts used the Chicago metrics as a foundation.