Yep, on OS X it is Lucida Grande. Up until Mac OS 8, it was Chicago,
and for OS 8 and 9 it was Charcoal. Along the way, it nearly became
Espy, which was used for the Newton and eWorld, Apple's first and
aborted graphical internet service.
See: http://www.lowendmac.com/backnforth/2k0601.html
As a side issue, the original font and icon designer for the
Macintosh, Susan Kare, (Chicago, Command symbol, Happy Mac, trashcan,
watch, bomb, dogcow etc) went on to design the icons for NexT,
Windows 3.0 (including the cards in Solitaire) and IBM OS/2, so is
almost single handedly responsible for icon design/influence on
pretty much every computing platform up until OS X/XP, and even then
certain elements of hers are retained eg generic app icon with pen on
paper.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Kare
http://www.kare.com/
On 15 Mar 2006, at 01:32, Norman Palardy wrote:
I thought the system font was Lucida Grande which is why I checked
in Font Book for what glyphs and code points they are
Tony Spencer
St Rémy de Provence (13) France
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http://tonyspencer.blogspot.com/
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