{"id":9400,"date":"2014-08-24T16:01:29","date_gmt":"2014-08-24T20:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=9400"},"modified":"2014-08-24T16:01:29","modified_gmt":"2014-08-24T20:01:29","slug":"ode-to-susan-kares-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/24\/ode-to-susan-kares-chicago\/","title":{"rendered":"Ode to Susan Kare&rsquo;s Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hilobrow.com\/2014\/08\/19\/kern-your-enthusiasm-19\/\">Alissa Walker<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2014\/08\/21\/walker-chicago\">John Gruber<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/hilobrow.com\/2014\/08\/19\/kern-your-enthusiasm-19\/\"><p>It was square, squat, and inherently cute. It was friendly. It was easy to use. I&rsquo;m talking about the beige box with the blue grinning face that came to live with us in 1985. But I&rsquo;m also talking about the font that came with it. It was the typeface Chicago that spelled out &ldquo;Welcome to Macintosh,&rdquo; ushering us into a new age of personal computing. But it was also a new age for digital type. Here was a typeface created explicitly for the Macintosh, part of designer Susan Kare&rsquo;s strategy to customize everything from the characters to the icons &mdash; that happy computer, the wristwatch, an actual trashcan &mdash; to make it feel more human and less machine.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I liked <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Espy_Sans\">Espy Sans<\/a> better than Chicago&rsquo;s replacement, Charcoal.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alissa Walker (via John Gruber): It was square, squat, and inherently cute. It was friendly. It was easy to use. I&rsquo;m talking about the beige box with the blue grinning face that came to live with us in 1985. But I&rsquo;m also talking about the font that came with it. It was the typeface Chicago [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[133,295,30],"class_list":["post-9400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-font","tag-history","tag-mac"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9400"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9401,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9400\/revisions\/9401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}