Apple’s New San Francisco Fonts

Re:Apple’s New San Francisco Fonts by cpeterso on Monday September 28, 2015 @06:35PM (#10293658)

I wonder why they reused the "San Francisco" name. Following the original Macintosh tradition of naming fonts after "world class cities", there are plenty of new names they have have chosen.

http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=World_Class_Citie...

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Re:Apple’s New San Francisco Fonts by mhurron on Monday September 28, 2015 @07:40PM (#10293891)

Apple has fallen into the Silicon Valley 'everything important is in California' realm.

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Re:Apple’s New San Francisco Fonts by cheepin on Monday September 28, 2015 @08:38PM (#10294119)

I'm always amused when I look at the Date/Time settings and see that the West Coast runs on Cupertino time

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Re:Apple’s New San Francisco Fonts by erobbins on Monday September 28, 2015 @10:04PM (#10294357)

I always make sure I have LA or portland/seattle picked, that "cupertino" thing annoys me for some reason.

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Re:Apple’s New San Francisco Fonts by jandrese on Tuesday September 29, 2015 @01:56AM (#10294819)

They also missed out on calling it Sans Francisco.

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Re:Apple’s New San Francisco Fonts by provemewrong on Tuesday September 29, 2015 @07:35AM (#10295593)

Or, more canonically, Francisco Sans.

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Re:Apple’s New San Francisco Fonts by kzrdude on Monday September 28, 2015 @07:58PM (#10293966)

Oh the original names where a lot better. I guess less memorable, but still more unique.

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Re:Apple’s New San Francisco Fonts by janten on Tuesday September 29, 2015 @06:58AM (#10295495)

San Francisco. System Font.

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