{"id":4726,"date":"2009-03-24T01:59:30","date_gmt":"2009-03-24T01:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=4726"},"modified":"2009-03-24T01:59:30","modified_gmt":"2009-03-24T01:59:30","slug":"susan-kare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2009\/03\/24\/susan-kare\/","title":{"rendered":"Susan Kare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kare.com\/portfolio\/03_apple_macicons.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4727\" title=\"icons.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/icons.jpg\" alt=\"icons.jpg\" width=\"340\" height=\"411\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/icons.jpg 340w, https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/icons-248x300.jpg 248w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 340px) 85vw, 340px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A post for <a href=\"http:\/\/findingada.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ada Lovelace Day<\/a>, &#8220;an international day of blogging to draw attention to women excelling in technology.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kare.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Susan Kare<\/a> was, and still is, a graphic designer specialising in user interface graphics. Facebook users may recognise her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kare.com\/portfolio\/01_facebook1.html\" target=\"_blank\">gift icons<\/a> but her earlier work is even more familiar to Macintosh users since it was her job at Apple in 1983 to design the icons for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kare.com\/portfolio\/03_apple_macicons.html\" target=\"_blank\">the first Macintosh interface<\/a>. Many of the original black &amp; white images have been phased out or replaced by higher-resolution equivalents but some still remain, in particular the pointing hand, the stopwatch (which became an hourglass in Windows) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.folklore.org\/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&amp;story=Swedish_Campground.txt&amp;characters=Susan%20Kare&amp;sortOrder=Sort%20by%20Date&amp;detail=medium\" target=\"_blank\">the Command symbol<\/a> which was based on a map icon for Swedish camping grounds. She also designed some of the fonts used by the first Mac OS including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.identifont.com\/show?1O3\" target=\"_blank\">Geneva<\/a>\u2014still a web standard\u2014and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.identifont.com\/show?1O4\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago<\/a> which was the primary Mac font for many years. In a field overly-dominated by men, her work lies at the heart of technology we&#8217;re using today, right down to the Mac keyboard on which I type these words.<\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2006\/11\/16\/folder-icons-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">Folder icons<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A post for Ada Lovelace Day, &#8220;an international day of blogging to draw attention to women excelling in technology.&#8221; Susan Kare was, and still is, a graphic designer specialising in user interface graphics. Facebook users may recognise her gift icons but her earlier work is even more familiar to Macintosh users since it was her &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2009\/03\/24\/susan-kare\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Susan Kare&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,15,10],"tags":[297],"class_list":["post-4726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-technology","category-typography","tag-susan-kare"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-1ee","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}