Monaco (typeface)
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Category | Sans-serif |
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Classification | Monospace |
Designer(s) | Susan Kare |
Foundry | Apple Inc. |
Monaco is a monospaced sans-serif typeface designed by Susan Kare and Kris Holmes. It ships with macOS and was already present with all previous versions of the Mac operating system. Characters are distinct, and it is difficult to confuse 0 (figure zero) and O (uppercase O), or 1 (figure one), | (vertical bar), I (uppercase i) and l (lowercase L).[citation needed] A unique feature of the font is the high curvature of its parentheses as well as the width of its square brackets, the result of these being that an empty pair of parentheses or square brackets will strongly resemble a circle or square, respectively.
Monaco has been released in at least three forms. The original was a
The original Monaco 9 point bitmap font was designed so that when a
With the August 2009 release of
Furthermore, in September 2015, Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan introduced SF Mono, a monospaced variant of the San Francisco font family, as the default monospaced font instead of Menlo.
See also
- Apple typography
- ProFont
References
- ^ "BASIC CONVERSIONS".
- ^ "Help document for FILE -- MAC Text Editor".
- ^ Chris Foresman (2009-06-12). "Font changes coming to Mac OS X Snow Leopard (Updated)". Ars Technica.
External links
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/30px-Commons-logo.svg.png)
- n8f8 (2004-12-08). "Finding the Best Programmer's Font". Archived from the original on 2013-01-12.
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: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - Susan Kare (August 1983). "Macintosh Stories: World Class Cities". folklore.org.