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Apple Symbols

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Apple Symbols is a font introduced in Mac OS X 10.3 “Panther”. This is a TrueType font intended to provide coverage for characters defined as symbols in the Unicode Standard. It continues to ship with Mac OS X as part of the default installation. Prior to Mac OS X 10.5, its path was /Library/Fonts/Apple Symbols.ttf. From Mac OS X 10.5 onward, it is to be found at /System/Library/Fonts/Apple Symbols.ttf, meaning it is now considered an essential part of the system software, not to be deleted by users.

The version of the font as of Mac OS X 10.5 is 6.0d7e4.

It remains available in modern macOS versions such as macOS Ventura.[1]

List of glyphs

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The Mac OS X version of the font contains over 5,000 glyphs from the following Unicode blocks:

History

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Apple lists this font as copyrighted 2003.

Mac OS X 10.3

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Apple Symbols was introduced with the following:

Mac OS X 10.4

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Version 5.0d5e1 contains glyph variants and new glyphs for the following Unicode blocks:

Mac OS X 10.5

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Apple Symbols was significantly extended for its Mac OS X 10.5 “Leopard” release—version 6.0d7e4 (2007/08/03)—and had its glyph repertoire more than tripled. As well as additions to the Unicode blocks partially covered by earlier releases, the font included new glyphs for Latin, Greek, Shavian, and the following Unicode blocks:

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Fonts included with macOS Ventura". Apple Support. 5 December 2022. Retrieved 31 December 2022.