“Apple has made available a rather special TrueType Font,” Johnny Winter reports for Tuts+.
“The original Mac was launched, 30 years ago, on 24th January 1984,” Winter reports. “Apple has put together an impressive commemorative website which really is worth exploring.”
“Apple has created a special font containing icons of a number of Mac models from over the last 30 years,” Winter reports. “In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to download and use the special Apple font that contains the different Mac models from the last 30 years”
The Mac Character Set
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “David G.” for the heads up.]
Where is the dogcow!
dogcow says Moof!
Hey, that’s Clarus the Dogcow to you, buddy!
Moof!
Love it, very cool. I can use these with my blog. Thanks!
Where’s the new Mac Pro?
2nd to last row, far left
I’m not sure how telling it is, but they’ve gone from very distinctive, easy recognizable designs to a rectangle. One with rounded corners, and one without.
There’s nothing new or special about installing this font.
Accessing the characters/graphics is the trick. But we Mac users typically have that licked via our text editors or an add-on like PopChar.
Here is the direct link to the font from Apple. There has been speculation that it may disappear from Apple’s website. The source article above has their own local link to the font as well.
http://images.apple.com//v/30-years/a/fonts/mac-icons/mac-icon-standard.ttf
Apple TV first gen, was essentially a bare bones intel Mac Mini.
I think there are a few items missing from the font. For example, no one ever mentioned, for the 30th, the blue G3 tower, which was the original “super computer” before the G4.
The pleasant thing, I have laid my hands on practically every singe one of these. Exceptions for sure, 20th Anniversary Mac.
This looks very complete. I can’t find any Mac models, that can be distinguished as looking different in these icons, that are missing. Even that bulbous Power Mac All-In-One (that Apple mostly sold to educators) is there. The Mac XL, which was really a “patched” Lisa that Apple off-loaded as Macs, is there.
Oh, the original beige Power Mac G3, desktop and tower, BEFORE the blue and white Power Mac G3, is not shown.
With the translucent case button.
Forgot all about that.
Missing the eMac.
Oh whoops found it!
I can understand leaving out the Apple Network Server (not a Mac), but what about the Xserve?
Since this is a “font” there is probably a limit to the number of “characters” in the set. I mean, come on, where are all the “clone” Macs from Power Computing, Motorola, Radius, APS, DayStar, etc. (and Psystar!) 🙂
Ahhhh, Psystar. A name I haven’t heard in a while.. 😀
More than enough characters in a font set to include all of those – but they weren’t Macintosh computers.
Where are the MacBook Duos and Duo Dock? To this day, it is one of my favourite Macs – and simply the slickest docking computer system ever. (Way ahead of even the Thunderbolt Display).
I also miss the Adjustable Keyboard with the separate numeric keypad and wrist supports.
Don’t see a Pippin set top box.