Tha mac font

[modyouup]

Anybody know what the mac font is called and/or where I can download it?

I'm talkin about the font they use to type iPod, iMac, and just about everything else.

[Rower_CPU]

it might be Apple Garamond...but I'm not sure...

[Hemingray]

Yup. You're right. It's Apple Garamond. I have it somewhere... you can find it on Hotline sometimes.

[mac15]

isn't it lucida grande in OS X
oh well you might mean something different

[eyelikeart]

it's Apple Garamond...

I have it if anyone wants it...

[j763]

eyelikeart,

can you stuffit and post it plz?

[Hemingray]

Originally posted by mac15
isn't it lucida grande in OS X
oh well you might mean something different

Well, Lucida Grande is the font they use in OS X but he meant the Apple corporate font.

[eyelikeart]

Originally posted by j763
eyelikeart,

can you stuffit and post it plz?

sure thing!

can u guys handle waiting till the morning? I don't think I have it on my TiBook...but I know I have it on the G4 at work...

I'll check to be certain first...

[mac15]

thanks hemingray
does anybody know what the default font in OS 9 is called

[GeeYouEye]

Originally posted by mac15
thanks hemingray
does anybody know what the default font in OS 9 is called

The menus are Chicago, and the filenames are Geneva. On a different note, why are so many fonts named after cities?

[Geert]

Isn't the Apple Garamond standard included with fonts in OSX I know I've got it, and I sure as heck didn't add it, it was there from the beginning.

Heck, they even have it on a peecee, it's called A Garamond then.
See this:

[mac15]

here is Url if anybody wants the font
http://buryme34.tripod.com/misc.html
scroll down the page you will find it

[eyelikeart]

cool...

sorry I couldn't get it posted here...kept saying it was too big... :rolleyes:

[eyelikeart]

I think Apple has a tendency to reduce the kearning when using it...so if u compare what u would type in the font to be exact to what is displayed on Apple's website...there may be a small difference... ;)

[King Cobra]

I have the Apple font. It is Apple Garamond. I have I think eight varieties of it.

Here is a demo:

Quit dreaming, start reading:

[Hemingray]

mac15, besides Chicago, Apple also tried to push Charcoal as the new system font starting back in OS 8. Remember that?

King Cobra, something looks odd about your font. Did you use Apple Garamond Light? That is the face they use for their titles. The other faces, like Book and Bold, are used mostly in their manuals, literature, etc. and aren't seen very often.

Compare Apple Garamond Light:

[Hemingray]

Originally posted by GeeYouEye
On a different note, why are so many fonts named after cities?

Like Chicago, Geneva, Monaco, and New York? I'm not sure. Like Adobe also names all their woodtype fonts after types of wood, like Madrone, Cottonwood, Juniper, Rosewood, Ponderosa, etc. (All of those are very cool western fonts, BTW.)

Does anyone remember the old mac font Egypt? it was a whole mixture of different fonts (like a ransom note made out of newspaper clippings).

There were some other discontinued ones too, but unfortunately all my old comps running OS 6 and 7 are out in storage...

[King Cobra]

Originally posted by Hemingray, who noticed something about my version of the font
King Cobra, something looks odd about your font. Did you use Apple Garamond Light? That is the face they use for their titles. The other faces, like Book and Bold, are used mostly in their manuals, literature, etc. and aren't seen very often.

I used Apple Garamond Black, which is a heavy bold.

Here is the real variety:

[Hemingray]

Oh, okay. I didn't even know there was an Apple Garamond Black! You learn something new every day. :) I only have Light, Book, and Bold and the oblique/italic versions of each.

[Choppaface]

a guy who did some sort of store design for apple told me once that apple sees unlicensed people who use their font they same way they see people who download Final cut pro illegally. dunno if they've changed the rules, or if the one in circulation is just some sort of 'fan' font or something, but that might be something to keep in mind

[Hemingray]

Maybe so, but I don't think Apple would want to bother. We're just Apple fanatics, you know? The only time I've ever used the Apple corporate font (aside from this forum instance) was to make my own custom boot screen and a few banners for theapplecollection.com. So I guess if they really want to waste their time going after "nobodies" like me then so be it... but if they really want to nip it in the bud they'll need to go after the ones who distribute it.

[mmmdreg]

Originally posted by Hemingray
Oh, okay. I didn't even know there was an Apple Garamond Black! You learn something new every day. :) I only have Light, Book, and Bold and the oblique/italic versions of each.

Yeah..I only got Bold Book and Light...Where can you get Black?

[freedom]

Have you guys tried Minion Condensed?
It has the same look, if I remeber it right…
I haven´t checked that out for a really
long time, but you should check it out!
King Cobra, even the second example
looked funny, sort of grainy…
freedom over and back to work!
:(

[ajkandy]

Apple commissioned a custom version of Garamond, which is what we know as Apple Garamond; it isn't distributed commercially, but it finds its way to the public occasionally, especially if you work in advertising ;)

ITC Garamond Standard Narrow is the closest cousin I've seen to it, you can find an OpenType version at the Adobe online type shop at http://www.adobe.com/type/browser/P/P_1061.html

The OS 8/9 font is selectable between Chicago or Charcoal. On the iPod itself, the font is Chicago. In OS X, it's Lucida Grande, which *does* exist in some form on PCs as "Lucida Unicode", so it's a good choice for making cross-platform PowerPoints ;)

The "AGaramond" seen in the PC font list is plain Adobe Garamond, sorry to say ;)

[eyelikeart]

Originally posted by ajkandy
Apple commissioned a custom version of Garamond, which is what we know as Apple Garamond; it isn't distributed commercially, but it finds its way to the public occasionally, especially if you work in advertising ;)

The "AGaramond" seen in the PC font list is plain Adobe Garamond, sorry to say ;)

funny...it's on every single Mac I've ever used (that I can remember anyway)

so why shouldn't someone use it?! I honestly feel Apple needs to get over themselves with frowning upon those who use it... :rolleyes:

[Hemingray]

Originally posted by eyelikeart


funny...it's on every single Mac I've ever used (that I can remember anyway)

Apple Garamond or Adobe Garamond? I find it pretty hard to believe that every Mac you've used has automatically come with Apple Garamond...

[eyelikeart]

Originally posted by Hemingray
Apple Garamond or Adobe Garamond? I find it pretty hard to believe that every Mac you've used has automatically come with Apple Garamond...

why would it be hard to believe that Apple Garamond is a widely available font?

when I was in school there was always a wealth of fonts available...

and for work...I cannot even tell u how many thousand fonts we have...

it's everywhere I tell u....absolute madness!!! :eek: :D

[Hemingray]

Egads!! :eek:

Okay, I believe you! :D I'd just never seen it available before until I saw it on Hotline a few years back. It had the Apple's copyright readme and everything, so I figured it wasn't that readily available.