Talk:Chicago (typeface)

Info Box Content on Designer & Foundry
So, as of 26 August 2015, the info box says the following: Unfortunately, this kind of blurs things awkwardly. Really, it was originally Susan Kare (designer) under Apple Computer Inc. (foundry in this case), then later, Charles Bigelow and Kris Holmes (designers) redid it under their foundry (Bigelow & Holmes) which was commissioned by Apple for the TrueType remake of Chicago. This distinction is blurred in the info box, lending to potentially false conclusions. Notably, Susan Kare was not a designer working under Bigelow & Holmes. Susan Kare worked for Apple. Charles Bigelow and Kris Holmes worked for themselves under the foundry name of Bigelow & Holmes.
 * Designer(s): Susan Kare
 * Foundry: Bigelow & Holmes

One possible fix is to do something similar to the following:
 * Designer(s): Susan Kare (1984), Charles Bigelow & Kris Holmes (1991)
 * Foundry: Apple Computer (1984), Bigelow & Holmes (1991)

Note that the release years are used and not the years for main creation, since Susan Kare had worked on Chicago proper during sometime before the January 1984 release (she joined Apple in 1982, and the Macintosh project started earlier than that, so sometime between 1982–1983 would be Chicago's development) and Charles Bigelow & Kris Holmes started the "Apple 4 Fonts project" in 1988, but the font was released accompanying System 7 in 1991.

—BrianKrent (talk) 01:15, 27 August 2015 (UTC)

Name changed in OS X?
A side-by-side comparison of Chicago and a font called Krungthep (found in Leopard, was an upgrade from Tiger.) shows similarity. I don't know wether it is simply just a rename or if it is a different font.

--Onekopaka (talk) 22:42, 1 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the tip. In the standard ASCII range it appears to be identical (AFAICT from screenshots) but additional searching online indicates it to be a Thai font.  It could be Chicago extended with Thai characters. ⇔ ChristTrekker 16:05, 14 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Yes, many of the non-Roman fonts include Roman characters similar or identical to one of Apple's standard fonts, since most applications assume that Roman characters will always be available. David Arthur (talk) 19:48, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 21:22, 13 February 2008 (UTC)