Athens (typeface)
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Athens was one of the original bitmap typeface
s for the Apple
Macintosh computer. It was designed by Susan Kare
. An official TrueType version was never made, and Athens was rendered obsolete with the arrival of System 7
.
Alexandria
, by Hank Gillette, is a free TrueType
font of similar design sometimes used as a surrogate on non-Apple systems.
Typeface
In typography, a typeface is the artistic representation or interpretation of characters; it is the way the type looks. Each type is designed and there are thousands of different typefaces in existence, with new ones being developed constantly....
s for the Apple
Apple Computer
Apple Inc. is an American multinational corporation that designs and markets consumer electronics, computer software, and personal computers. The company's best-known hardware products include the Macintosh line of computers, the iPod, the iPhone and the iPad...
Macintosh computer. It was designed by Susan Kare
Susan Kare
Susan Kare is an artist and graphic designer who created many of the interface elements for the Apple Macintosh in the 1980s. She was also one of the original employees of NeXT , working as the Creative Director.-Background:Kare was born in Ithaca, New York and is the sister of aerospace engineer...
. An official TrueType version was never made, and Athens was rendered obsolete with the arrival of System 7
System 7 (Macintosh)
System 7 is a single-user graphical user interface-based operating system for Macintosh computers. It was introduced on May 13, 1991 by Apple Computer. It succeeded System 6, and was the main Macintosh operating system until it was succeeded by Mac OS 8 in 1997...
.
Alexandria
Alexandria (typeface)
Alexandria is a serif font typeface created by Hank Gillete. It corresponds to the neo-grotesque sub-classification. It is patterned after Susan Kare's bitmap Athens.- External links :*...
, by Hank Gillette, is a free TrueType
TrueType
TrueType is an outline font standard originally developed by Apple Computer in the late 1980s as a competitor to Adobe's Type 1 fonts used in PostScript...
font of similar design sometimes used as a surrogate on non-Apple systems.