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Simon Jary - Apple's serial special Ks

Thu, 02 Jun 2011

Kare   Not many people have heard of Susan Kare but we all see her work every day, as she designed many of the interface elements, fonts and icons of the early Macintosh, some of which survive to this day.

See the little icon on your keyboard’s Command (Apple) key. Kare took that design from a Swedish icon for a campsite, and made it the longest-lasting icon in Apple history. Her Chicago font (see headline) was used as the interface font before Mac OS X, and continued use in the first four generations of iPod interface.

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