- Apple Symbols
Apple Symbols is a font introduced in
Mac OS X 10.3 "Panther." This is aTruetype font, intended to provide coverage for characters defined as symbols in theUnicode 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, 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.
List of Glyphs
The Mac OS X version of the font over 5000 glyphs from the following
Unicode blocks:
* U+0000–U+007F Basic Latin
* U+0080–U+00FF Latin-1 Supplement
* U+0180–U+024F Latin Extended-B
* U+02B0–U+02FF Spacing Modifier Letters
* U+0300–U+036F Combining Diacritical Marks
* U+0370–U+03FF Greek and Coptic
* U+1F00–U+1FFF Greek Extended
* U+2000–U+206F General Punctuation
* U+2070–U+209F Superscripts and Subscripts
* U+20A0–U+20CFCurrency Symbol s
* U+2100–U+214FLetterlike Symbol s
* U+2150–U+218F Number Forms
* U+2190–U+21FF Arrows
* U+2200–U+22FF Mathematical Operators
* U+2300–U+23FF Miscellaneous Technical
* U+2400–U+243F Control Pictures
* U+2440–U+245FOptical Character Recognition
* U+2500–U+257F Box Drawing
* U+2580–U+259F Block Elements
* U+25A0–U+25FF Geometric Shapes
* U+2600–U+26FFMiscellaneous Symbols
* U+27C0–U+27EF Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-A
* U+27F0–U+27FF Supplemental Arrows-A
* U+2800–U+28FF Braille Patterns
* U+2900–U+297F Supplemental Arrows-B
* U+2980–U+29FF Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-B
* U+2A00–U+2AFF Supplemental Mathematical Operators
* U+2B00–U+2BFF Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows
* U+2E80–U+2EFF CJK Radicals Supplement
* U+2F00–U+2FDF Kangxi Radicals
* U+4DC0–U+4DFF Yijing Hexagram Symbols
* U+A700–U+A71F Modifier Tone Letters
* U+FE50–U+FE6F Small Form Variants
* U+FE70–U+FEFF Arabic Presentation Forms-B
* U+FF00–U+FFEF Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms
* U+FFF0–U+FFFF Specials
* U+10100–U+1013F Aegean Numbers
* U+10140–U+1018F Ancient Greek Numbers
* U+10190–U+101CF Ancient Symbols
* U+10400–U+1044F Deseret
* U+10450–U+1047FShavian
* U+1D100–U+1D1FF Musical Symbols
* U+1D300–U+1D35F Tai Xuan Jing Symbols
* U+1D360–U+1D37F Counting Rod Numerals
* U+1D400–U+1D7FF Mathematical Alphanumeric SymbolsHistory
Apple lists this font as Copyright 2003.
Mac OS 10.3
*Introduced with the following:
** General Punctuation
**Currency Symbol s
**Letterlike Symbol s
** Arrows
** Mathematical Operators
**Optical Character Recognition
** Box Drawing
** Block Elements
** Geometric Shapes
**Miscellaneous Symbols
** DeseretMac OS 10.4
Version 5.0d5e1:
*Braille
*Yijing Hexagram Symbols
* Small Form Variants
* Musical Symbols
*Tai Xuan Jing Symbols
*glyph variant sMac OS 10.5
Apple Symbols was significantly extended for its Mac OS X v10.5 ("Leopard") release, version 6.0d7e4 (
2007-08-03 ), and more than tripled its glyph repertoire. 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:* U+02B0–U+02FF Spacing Modifier Letters
* U+0300–U+036F Combining Diacritical Marks
* U+2070–U+209F Superscripts and Subscripts
* U+2150–U+218F Number Forms
* U+2300–U+23FF Miscellaneous Technical
* U+2400–U+243F Control Pictures
* U+27C0–U+27EF Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-A
* U+27F0–U+27FF Supplemental Arrows-A
* U+2900–U+297F Supplemental Arrows-B
* U+2980–U+29FF Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-B
* U+2A00–U+2AFF Supplemental Mathematical Operators
* U+2B00–U+2BFF Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows
* U+2E80–U+2EFF CJK Radicals Supplement
* U+2F00–U+2FDF Kangxi Radicals
* U+A700–U+A71F Modifier Tone Letters
* U+FE70–U+FEFF Arabic Presentation Forms-B
* U+FF00–U+FFEF Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms
* U+FFF0–U+FFFF Specials
* U+10100–U+1013F Aegean Numbers
* U+10140–U+1018F Ancient Greek Numbers
* U+10190–U+101CF Ancient Symbols
* U+1D360–U+1D37F Counting Rod Numerals
* U+1D400–U+1D7FF Mathematical Alphanumeric SymbolsReferences
*Apple Mac OS X's utility
Font Book
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