Started by Chidi Eze (@pixelpushr) ·
Susan Kare drew the original Mac icons on graph paper
One square of graph paper per pixel. She also drew the first Mac fonts, which were named after cities (Chicago, Geneva, New York...). The ⌘ symbol came from a symbol dictionary, where it marks a place of interest on signs in Scandinavia, after Jobs supposedly objected to the Apple logo being all over the menus.
6 sources · 35 min down the hole
How I got here
- Started with
- “who designed the original macintosh icons”
- Ended at
- Command key
The Trail
- “who designed the original macintosh icons” (google.com)
- Susan Kare (en.wikipedia.org)
- Chicago (typeface) (en.wikipedia.org)
- Macintosh startup (en.wikipedia.org)
the happy mac face at boot is hers
- Looped square (en.wikipedia.org)
- Command key (en.wikipedia.org)
Keep going
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