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The complete "world class cities" story has been written about by Susan Kare on Folklore.org: http://folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=World_Class_Cities.txt http

• philwelch 15y ago
  There's more to the story than that: for instance, New York is a knockoff of Times, and Geneva is a knockoff of Helvetica, hence the names. Monaco was named in reference to its status as a monospaced font. Later on, when Apple actually licensed Times and Helvetica, the knockoffs coexisted with their original inspirations, even though there's no good reason you'd want to use New York or Geneva anymore. I still have Geneva on my Mac, though old stalwarts like Chicago and New York are gone.