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As the article mentions, the Macintosh had a similar font years before. I recall a very early Macintosh game even used a custom font for its sprites.
by jnwatson 6y ago
As the article mentions, the Macintosh had a similar font years before.
I recall a very early Macintosh game even used a custom font for its sprites.
- hinkley 6y agoWe rediscovered icon fonts about 15 years ago for web applications and I recall conversations that mentioned Wingdings. It's like finding something in the back of a drawer that you completely forgot you had and now can't recall why it got lost in the first place.
- greggturkington 6y agoYep, we rediscovered them, then we rediscovered they were bad (on the web) https://github.blog/2016-02-22-delivering-octicons-with-svg/ https://github.blog/2016-02-22-delivering-octicons-with-svg/
- duskwuff 6y agoEarly Macintosh systems had several such fonts, including Cairo and Mobile. The icons in those fonts were a lot weirder than Wingdings or Dingbats -- where else can you find a font which includes glyphs for a fried egg, an ankh, a frog, and a dogcow?
- danaliv 6y agoAnd who could forget Cairo ShootOut? https://macintoshgarden.org/games/cairo-shootout https://macintoshgarden.org/games/cairo-shootout (God rest your soul, Mr. Blehm.)