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Susan Kare. San Francisco designer with a highly developed ability to work creatively with a small number of pixels. As creative director at Apple from 1982 to 1985 she was largely responsible for the cute look ’n’ feel of the Macintosh user interface, designing numerous icons and bitmap fonts for it. Chicago, New York, Geneva and the other ...
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In 1982, Kare was living in the Bay Area and working as a sculptor. She was working on a commission—“welding a life-size razorback hog” for an Arkansas museum—when she received a phone call from Andy Hertzfeld, an old high school classmate from the Philadelphia suburbs. Hertzfeld worked at Apple Computer in Cupertino; he had been recruited by co-fo...
When Kare joined Apple in January 1983, Hertzfeld tasked her with designing the icons and typefaces for the Mac’s operating system and applications such as MacPaint. The Macintosh featured a bit-mapped display in which each point of light, or pixel, on the screen was individually controlled by a single bit of data. Creating graphics was simply a ma...
Kare also created a family of new proportional fonts for the Macintosh. At the time, most digital typefaces were monospaced, meaning that narrow and broad characters alike (e.g., both "I" and "M") used the same amount of on-screen space. Typeface design imposed even more rigorous constraints than the icons. "Each letter had to fit in a space of jus...
1 Alexandra Lange, “The Woman Who Gave the Macintosh a Smile,” The New Yorker, 19 April 2018, https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/the-woman-who-gave-the-macintosh-a-smile, accessed 30 April 2018. 2 Quotation from Alex Soojung-Kim Pang, “Interview with Susan Kare,” conducted 8 September 2000, Making the Macintosh project, Stanford Uni...
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Susan Kare (/ k ɛər / "care"; born February 5, 1954) is an American artist and graphic designer, who contributed interface elements and typefaces for the first Apple Macintosh personal computer from 1983 to 1986.
