Apple’s roots in calligraphy
December 28th, 2009
Steve Jobs credits the design of the first Apple and all subsequent digital typography to a calligraphy course he took after dropping out of college. (Jump to 3:30)
I learned about serif and sans-serif typefaces, about varying the space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great… it was beautiful in a way that science can’t capture… We designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography… If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts, and since Windows just copied the Mac, it is likely that no personal computer would have them.