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Apple Symbols is a font introduced in Mac OS X 10.3 “Panther”. This is a TrueType font intended to provide coverage for characters defined as symbols in the Unicode Standard. It continues to ship with Mac OS X as part of the default installation. Prior to Mac OS X 10.5, its path was /Library/Fonts/Apple Symbols.ttf.
Apple Garamond (1983), designed to replace Motter Tektura in the Apple logo. Not included on Macs in a user-available form. New York (1984, by Susan Kare), a serif font. Toronto (1984, Susan Kare) Athens (1984, Susan Kare), slab serif. Hoefler Text (1991, Jonathan Hoefler), still included with every Mac. Four-member family with an ornament font.
It was used not only in conjunction with the logo, but also in manuals and ads and to label products with model names. Apple has not released the true Apple Garamond font. ITC briefly sold ITC Garamond Narrow—Apple Garamond without the custom hinting—as part of its Apple Font Pack in the 1990s.
The original Signetics 2513 character generator chip has 64 glyphs for upper case, numbers, symbols, and punctuation characters. Each 5x7 pixel bitmap matrix is displayed in a 7x8 character cell on the text screen.
Certain versions of the font's copyright string include attribution to Type Solutions, Inc., the maker of a tool used to hint the font. None of the characters were mapped to Unicode at the time; however, Unicode approved the addition of many symbols in the Wingdings and Webdings fonts in Unicode 7.0. [2] [3]
For other symbols, such as the arrow, star, and heart, there isn’t a direct keyboard shortcut symbol. However, you can use a handy shortcut to get to the emoji library you’re used to seeing on ...
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The font was created by Adobe and has its own character encoding, with the Greek letters arranged according to similar Latin letters (Chi = C, etc.).The document describing the mapping to Unicode code points [2] was created before several of the characters were added to Unicode, so the original mapping assigns several of the characters to the Private Use Area (PUA).