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Re:Apple Menlo: Snow Leopard's New Console Font by tptacek on Friday June 12, 2009 @12:39AM (#654185)
The only fonts in that list that Apple commissioned are Monaco and Hoefler Text, both from more than ten years ago.

I'm not complaining that Apple ships with a poor selection of fonts. I'm complaining that despite the heritage, they don't appear to be innovating with typography at all anymore. Microsoft is simply crushing them on this front.

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Re:Apple Menlo: Snow Leopard's New Console Font by jemmons on Monday June 15, 2009 @09:55AM (#658385)
You're confused. Microsoft isn't innovating here either. They're paying someone to innovate. That's why it's called "commission".

If Apple employed great type designers and was giving them nothing to do, that'd be a problem. But there's been no shortage of great font releases without Apple's patronage -- and all these releases can be installed on a Mac. So what's your real problem here?

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