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San Francisco (1984)
San Francisco is one of the original bitmap typefaces for the Apple Macintosh computer released in 1984.
About San Francisco
San Francisco is one of the original bitmap typefaces for the Apple Macintosh computer released in 1984. It was designed by Susan Kare to mimic the ransom-note effect and was used in early Mac software demos and Apple company flyers. An official TrueType version was never made, and San Francisco was rendered obsolete with the arrival of System 7.
From the Wikipedia article “San Francisco (decorative typeface)”, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Using San Francisco in a book
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Sources & data
- Structured data from Wikidata Q778708 (CC0).
- Summary text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).