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Apple's earliest computers had extremely limited graphics capabilities and could originally only display upper-case [[ASCII]] using a set bitmap font. The [[Apple IIc|IIc]] and Enhanced [[Apple IIe]] supported 80 columns of text and an extended character set called [[MouseText]]. It was used to simulate simple graphical user interfaces, similar to [[ANSI]]. The [[Apple IIGS]] system software and Finder used a monospaced 8 pt bitmap font called ''Shaston 8'' as the system font (menus, window titles and so on). ''Shaston'' was described in Apple IIGS technote #41 as "a modified ''[[Helvetica]]''", but the similarities are not striking. ''Shaston'' has serifs, while ''Helvetica'' is sans-serif. The [[#Fonts of the original Macintosh|fonts of the original Macintosh]] were also available for the GS.
[[Image:Apple IIc top view.jpg|thumb|right|''Univers'' was first used as the keyboard font of the [[Apple IIc]].]][[Image:PowerBook Univers keycaps.jpg|right|thumb|Six keys from a [[2003]] [[PowerBook G4]] keyboard.]]Since the [[Apple IIc]], in [[1984]], Apple's [[keyboard]]s have been using ''[[Univers]] Italic'' on the keycaps. The front-panel buttons on the Apple IIc were tilted at an angle corresponding to the inclination of the keyboard letters. Apple's partner in industrial design, [[frogdesign]], were responsible for the choice of this typeface. On portables released in [[2004]], the new keyboard font is [[VAG Rounded]]. Oddly, [[VAG Rounded]] is the corporate typeface used by German car manufacturer Volkswagen in much of their late-1990s marketing materials. (Note the VAG, which stands for Volkswagen Aktien Gesellschaft.) [[VAG Rounded]], however, is more or less a modified version of [[Helvetica Rounded]], a more "playful" variant of the utilitarian [[Helvetica]] typeface.
[[Image:Newton completed recognition.png|left|thumb|The Newton GUI, using ''Espy Sans'' for the small type and ''Casual'' for the large.]] In [[1993]], [[Apple's Human Interface Group]] designed the typeface ''[[Espy Sans]]'' specifically for on-screen use. It was first used for the Newton OS GUI and later integrated into Apple's ill-fated [[eWorld]] online service. The Newton used the font ''Apple Casual'' to display text entered using the [[Rosetta (Newton)|Rosetta]] handwriting recognition engine in the Newton. The same font found its way into the Rosetta-derived writing recognition in Mac OS X; [[Inkwell]]. The TrueType font can be made available to any application by copying the font file which is embedded in a system component to any [[#Mac OS X|font folder]]. See [[List of fonts in Mac OS X]] for more information. The Newton logo featured the ''[[Gill Sans]]'' typeface which was also used for the [[Newton keyboard]].
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