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Typographicatypographica@typo.social
2025-06-17

I’ve been saying Apple’s 2015 typeface San Francisco (fontsinuse.com/typefaces/39620) should have been called something else to avoid usurping the 1984 Susan Kare classic (fontsinuse.com/typefaces/31774).

Like maybe “Cupertino”.

But it turns out that was already taken in 1984 by a bitmap copy of Motter Tektura (fontsinuse.com/typefaces/10214)

Source: Macworld, November 1984 (archive.org/details/MacWorld84)

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Detail from an ad published in Macworld, November 1984 showing 12 bitmap fonts: Cupertino, Florence, Hollywood, Manhattan, Los Eisley, Paris, Saigon, Stuttgart, Sydney, Tokyo!, and Washington DC.Complete ad from which the previous image is cropped. Title of the product is “Mac the Knife”, published by Miles Computing, Inc.

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