Re: Apple Corporate Font!

[sheldon@atlcom.net (Sheldon Simms)]

In article <36702bf6.2396911@news.bconnex.net>, CUTjefbla@bconnex.net
(Jeff Blakeney) wrote:

> On 3 Dec 1998 23:45:58 -0500, dalloff@freenet.columbus.oh.us (Dave
> Althoff) wrote:
> 
> >On the Macintosh, the menu items are Chicago, and the icon names are
> >Geneva; the serifed font used in a few windows is Monaco.
> 
> Nit-pick alert!
> 
> I don't know about the Mac but on the IIgs, Monaco is very much a
> sans-serif font.  Sans means without and serif, well, I don't know
> what it means but it is those little extra bits at the corners and
> ends of lines on a character in a font.
> 
> So sans-serif means without those extra bits, serif means it has the
> extra bits.
> 
> On the IIgs, Monaco is a mono-spaced sans-serif font and Courier is a
> mono-spaced serif font.

The situation is the same on the Mac. Monaco is a mono-spaced sans-serif
font and Courier is a mono-spaced serifed font.

The generic serifed font used on the Mac is (I think) New York, which I
find pretty ugly.

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