How calligraphy shaped Steve Jobs and Apple’s typographic legacy - TypeRoom
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How calligraphy shaped Steve Jobs and Apple’s typographic legacy - TypeRoom
Steve Jobs initiated the turnaround, but is not responsible for the ⌘ on your keyboard now. We owe the command symbol to Susan kare . She was one of the first within Apple to design icons. She designed the pixelated trash can, the floppy icon, the smiling Mac and more.
from The Meaning and Origin of the Apple Command Key Symbol by allhomecinema.com
Jonathan Simcoe added
- "the things that inspire me the most are the intersection points, kind of intersections between two things that were never intersected before... Steve Jobs did this fantastically with calligraphy and computers, James Terrell with astronomy and web architecture..." Josh at the Browser Company on the Moth Minds podcast
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