Introducing the San Francisco system font

Re:Introducing the San Francisco system font by jd3 on Friday June 12, 2015 @10:40PM (#9709670)

I recently converted all of the old font suitcase (FFIL) files that I salvaged from Mac OS 1-7 (other than the elusive Taliesin which I have the FFIl for but remains unreadable in FontForge) to working OS X bitmap datafork fonts (.dfont). [0] Missing a few random ones such as Fancy (1993), the Apple Newton font, Espy Sans (1993, Apple eWorld, Apple Newton and iPod Mini font, known as System on the Apple Newton platform), eWorld Tight (1993, Apple eWorld font based on Helvetica Compressed), Simple (1993), Apple Newton font, based on Geneva), and toronto. It seems Grant Hutchinson (splorp) seems to have some old converted Apple fonts from his Newton projects [1] and from Mark Simonson [2], which could be promising of finishing the collection of what I've been referring to as the "Lost Fonts" project. I will be e-mailing them when I get the chance...

[0] http://i.imgur.com/Q1tZknV.png

[1] https://www.flickr.com/photos/splorp/8289012748/in/photostre...

[2] http://web.archive.org/web/20030807223056/http://www.ms-stud...

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Re:Introducing the San Francisco system font by whoopdedo on Saturday June 13, 2015 @01:12AM (#9709975)

This prompted me to dig out my old Macintosh disks (then spend half an hour downloading software that could read them only to find out most of it doesn't work on 64-bit Windows)

I found fewer bitmap fonts than I had thought I had saved. I came across a specimen printout with Espy Sans and Espy Serif (also BeBox) so I had it at one point. But I only found a file for "Espi Sans" that I think was an imitation. I also have the TTF conversion Epsy Sans.

If you would like some help cracking Taliesin I spent most of high school reverse engineering resource forks. Some of what I learned must still be lodged in my brain somewhere.

And yes, the first thing I thought of when I saw this article title was the old funky letter font.

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Re:Introducing the San Francisco system font by oxc0ffee on Sunday June 14, 2015 @09:16AM (#9714769)

Nice! Mind sharing a download link of said converted .dfonts that you have so far? Sounds like a nice Apple/typography history project.

Speaking of Mark Simonson, I recently realized that he was the very same as the Mark Simonson behind Atari Classic fonts — http://members.bitstream.net/marksim/atarimac/fonts.html

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Re:Introducing the San Francisco system font by jd3 on Wednesday June 24, 2015 @12:33PM (#9772717)

>Nice! Mind sharing a download link of said converted .dfonts that you have so far? Sounds like a nice Apple/typography history project.

Yeah, sure. For the time being, they will be here: http://cs.gettysburg.edu/~duncjo01/LostFonts/ As previously stated, I'm still missing a few though.

>Speaking of Mark Simonson, I recently realized that he was the very same as the Mark Simonson behind Atari Classic fonts — http://members.bitstream.net/marksim/atarimac/fonts.html

Oh wow, nice find! I never made that connection.

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Re:Introducing the San Francisco system font by mietek on Saturday June 13, 2015 @12:56AM (#9709931)

I should be able to help you locate some of the lost fonts, and I’d be interested in learning your conversion technique. Please do get in touch. My contact information is in my profile.

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Re:Introducing the San Francisco system font by jd3 on Wednesday June 24, 2015 @12:22PM (#9772644)

That'd be great. I'll e-mail you soon.

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