History of Clarus the Dogcow
71 points by ajuhasz 5 years ago | 8 comments- joezydeco 5 years agoKare created several fonts for the system, all given names for world-class cities.
There's also a little more to this story, courtesy of Susan Kare herself at https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=World_Class_Citi...
The fonts were named after commuter train stops in Philadelphia until Jobs decided they should be renamed after "world class cities".
- joezydeco 5 years agoSusan Kare sells signed prints of Clarus on her website:
- arghblarg 5 years agoAtari ST's TOS had it's own mascot, J.R. "Bob" Dobbs, in the high ASCII range of its system font: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._R._%22Bob%22_Dobbs
- User23 5 years agoI had a ton of fun with Cairo and my dad’s ImageWriter II as a boy.
- saagarjha 5 years agoIt’s a shame they removed the icon garden from Infinite Loop…
- sdfjkl 5 years agoMoof.
- selimthegrim 5 years agoA now defunct Mac shop in Portland, OR (by OMSI) used to sell Moof T shirts with the dog cow on them. I wish I still had mine.
- kalleboo 5 years agoRecently the Iconfactory sold a batch of Moof t-shirts in the style of this year's WWDC https://cottonbureau.com/products/w-w-dog-cow
- kalleboo 5 years ago
- selimthegrim 5 years ago