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Athens (typeface)

Athens was one of the original bitmap typefaces for the Apple Macintosh computer. Susan Kare designed it. An official TrueType version was never made, and Athens was rendered obsolete with the arrival of System 7.

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Athens was one of the original bitmap typefaces for the Apple Macintosh computer.1 Susan Kare designed it. An official TrueType version was never made, and Athens was rendered obsolete with the arrival of System 7.

Alexandria by Hank Gillette2 and Athene by Rebecca Bettencourt3 are free TrueType fonts of similar design sometimes used as a surrogate on non-Apple systems.

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  1. Fonts on Macintosh#System 6.0.8 and earlier
  2. "Free download: Alexandria Font". Free download: Alexandria Font. Retrieved 2022-02-02.
  3. "Urban Renewal". www.kreativekorp.com. Retrieved 2022-02-02.