Apple Symbols

Apple Symbols is a

Mac OS X 10.3 “Panther”. This is a TrueType font intended to provide coverage for characters defined as symbols in the Unicode Standard

. It continues to ship with Mac OS X as part of the default installation. Prior to Mac OS X 10.5, its path was /Library/Fonts/Apple Symbols.ttf. From Mac OS X 10.5 onward, it is to be found at /System/Library/Fonts/Apple Symbols.ttf, meaning it is now considered an essential part of the system software, not to be deleted by users.

The version of the font as of Mac OS X 10.5 is 6.0d7e4.

It remains available in modern macOS versions such as macOS Ventura.^[1]

List of glyphs

The Mac OS X version of the font contains over 5,000 glyphs from the following Unicode blocks:

U+0000 – U+007F — Basic Latin
U+0080 – U+00FF — Latin-1 Supplement
U+0180 – U+024F — Latin Extended-B
U+02B0 – U+02FF — Spacing Modifier Letters
U+0300 – U+036F — Combining Diacritical Marks
U+0370 – U+03FF — Greek and Coptic
U+1F00 – U+1FFF — Greek Extended
U+2000 – U+206F — General Punctuation
U+2070 – U+209F — Superscripts and Subscripts
U+20A0 – U+20CF — Currency Symbols
U+2100 – U+214F — Letterlike Symbols
U+2150 – U+218F — Number Forms
U+2190 – U+21FF — Arrows
U+2200 – U+22FF — Mathematical Operators
U+2300 – U+23FF — Miscellaneous Technical
U+2400 – U+243F — Control Pictures
U+2440 – U+245F — Optical Character Recognition
U+2500 – U+257F — Box Drawing
U+2580 – U+259F — Block Elements
U+25A0 – U+25FF — Geometric Shapes
U+2600 – U+26FF — Miscellaneous Symbols
U+27C0 – U+27EF — Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-A
U+27F0 – U+27FF — Supplemental Arrows-A
U+2800 – U+28FF — Braille Patterns
U+2900 – U+297F — Supplemental Arrows-B
U+2980 – U+29FF — Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-B
U+2A00 – U+2AFF — Supplemental Mathematical Operators
U+2B00 – U+2BFF — Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows
U+2E80 – U+2EFF — CJK Radicals Supplement
U+2F00 – U+2FDF — Kangxi Radicals
U+4DC0 – U+4DFF — Yijing Hexagram Symbols
U+A700 – U+A71F — Modifier Tone Letters
U+FE50 – U+FE6F — Small Form Variants
U+FE70 – U+FEFF — Arabic Presentation Forms-B
U+FF00 – U+FFEF — Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms
U+FFF0 – U+FFFF — Specials
U+10100 – U+1013F — Aegean Numbers
U+10140 – U+1018F — Ancient Greek Numbers
U+10190 – U+101CF — Ancient Symbols
U+10400 – U+1044F — Deseret
U+10450 – U+1047F — Shavian
U+1D100 – U+1D1FF — Musical Symbols
U+1D300 – U+1D35F — Tai Xuan Jing Symbols
U+1D360 – U+1D37F — Counting Rod Numerals
U+1D400 – U+1D7FF — Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols

History

Apple lists this font as copyrighted 2003.

Mac OS X 10.3

Apple Symbols was introduced with the following:

Mac OS X 10.4

Version 5.0d5e1 contains

glyph variants

and new glyphs for the following Unicode blocks:

Mac OS X 10.5

Apple Symbols was significantly extended for its

Shavian

, and the following Unicode blocks:

U+02B0 – U+02FF — Spacing Modifier Letters
U+0300 – U+036F — Combining Diacritical Marks
U+2070 – U+209F — Superscripts and Subscripts
U+2150 – U+218F — Number Forms
U+2300 – U+23FF — Miscellaneous Technical
U+2400 – U+243F — Control Pictures
U+27C0 – U+27EF — Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-A
U+27F0 – U+27FF — Supplemental Arrows-A
U+2900 – U+297F — Supplemental Arrows-B
U+2980 – U+29FF — Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-B
U+2A00 – U+2AFF — Supplemental Mathematical Operators
U+2B00 – U+2BFF — Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows
U+2E80 – U+2EFF — CJK Radicals Supplement
U+2F00 – U+2FDF — Kangxi Radicals
U+A700 – U+A71F — Modifier Tone Letters
U+FE70 – U+FEFF — Arabic Presentation Forms-B
U+FF00 – U+FFEF — Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms
U+FFF0 – U+FFFF — Specials
U+10100 – U+1013F — Aegean Numbers
U+10140 – U+1018F — Ancient Greek Numbers
U+10190 – U+101CF — Ancient Symbols
U+1D360 – U+1D37F — Counting Rod Numerals
U+1D400 – U+1D7FF — Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols

References

^ "Fonts included with macOS Ventura". Apple Support. 5 December 2022. Retrieved 31 December 2022.

[1] "Fonts included with macOS Ventura". Apple Support. 5 December 2022. Retrieved 31 December 2022.

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