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
The version of the font as of Mac OS X 10.5 is 6.0d7e4.
blocks:
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:
Typeface
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introduced in Mac OS X 10.3 "Panther." This is a Truetype
TrueType
TrueType is an outline font standard originally developed by Apple Computer in the late 1980s as a competitor to Adobe's Type 1 fonts used in PostScript...
font, intended to provide coverage for characters defined as symbols in the Unicode
Unicode
Unicode is a computing industry standard for the consistent encoding, representation and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems...
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 contains over 5000 glyphs from the following UnicodeUnicode
Unicode is a computing industry standard for the consistent encoding, representation and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems...
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+20CF Currency Symbols
- U+2100–U+214F Letterlike symbolsLetterlike SymbolsLetterlike Symbols are graphemes which are constructed mainly from the glyphs of one or more letters.In Unicode, Letterlike Symbols are placed in the block U+2100–214F, as in the following table.-See also:*Mapping of Unicode characters...
- 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+245F Optical Character RecognitionOptical character recognitionOptical character recognition, usually abbreviated to OCR, is the mechanical or electronic translation of scanned images of handwritten, typewritten or printed text into machine-encoded text. It is widely used to convert books and documents into electronic files, to computerize a record-keeping...
- U+2500–U+257F Box Drawing
- U+2580–U+259F Block Elements
- U+25A0–U+25FF Geometric Shapes
- U+2600–U+26FF Miscellaneous SymbolsMiscellaneous SymbolsThe Miscellaneous Symbols Unicode block contains various glyphs representing things from a variety of categories: Astrological, Astronomical, Chess, Dice, Ideological symbols, Musical notation, Political symbols, Recycling, Religious symbols, Trigrams, Warning signs and Weather.-Tables:Note: These...
- 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 DeseretDeseret alphabetThe Deseret alphabet is a phonemic English spelling reform developed in the mid-19th century by the board of regents of the University of Deseret under the direction of Brigham Young, second president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.In public statements, Young claimed the...
- U+10450–U+1047F Shavian
- 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 symbols
Mac OS X 10.3
- Introduced with the following:
- General Punctuation
- Currency Symbols
- Letterlike SymbolsLetterlike SymbolsLetterlike Symbols are graphemes which are constructed mainly from the glyphs of one or more letters.In Unicode, Letterlike Symbols are placed in the block U+2100–214F, as in the following table.-See also:*Mapping of Unicode characters...
- Arrows
- Mathematical Operators
- Optical Character RecognitionOptical character recognitionOptical character recognition, usually abbreviated to OCR, is the mechanical or electronic translation of scanned images of handwritten, typewritten or printed text into machine-encoded text. It is widely used to convert books and documents into electronic files, to computerize a record-keeping...
- Box Drawing
- Block Elements
- Geometric Shapes
- Miscellaneous SymbolsMiscellaneous SymbolsThe Miscellaneous Symbols Unicode block contains various glyphs representing things from a variety of categories: Astrological, Astronomical, Chess, Dice, Ideological symbols, Musical notation, Political symbols, Recycling, Religious symbols, Trigrams, Warning signs and Weather.-Tables:Note: These...
- DeseretDeseret alphabetThe Deseret alphabet is a phonemic English spelling reform developed in the mid-19th century by the board of regents of the University of Deseret under the direction of Brigham Young, second president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.In public statements, Young claimed the...
Mac OS X 10.4
Version 5.0d5e1:- BrailleBrailleThe Braille system is a method that is widely used by blind people to read and write, and was the first digital form of writing.Braille was devised in 1825 by Louis Braille, a blind Frenchman. Each Braille character, or cell, is made up of six dot positions, arranged in a rectangle containing two...
- Yijing HexagramHexagram (I Ching)The I Ching book consists of 64 hexagrams.A hexagram is a figure composed of six stacked horizontal lines , where each line is either Yang , or Yin . The hexagram lines are traditionally counted from the bottom up, so the lowest line is considered line 1 while the top line is line 6...
Symbols - Small Form Variants
- Musical Symbols
- Tai Xuan JingTai Xuan JingThe text Tài Xuán Jīng was composed by the Confucian writer Yáng Xióng . The first draft of this work was completed in 2BCE...
Symbols - glyph variants
Mac OS X 10.5
Apple Symbols was significantly extended for its Mac OS X v10.5 ("Leopard")Mac OS X v10.5
Mac OS X Leopard is the sixth major release of Mac OS X, Apple's desktop and server operating system for Macintosh computers. Leopard was released on 26 October 2007 as the successor of Tiger , and is available in two variants: a desktop version suitable for personal computers, and a...
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 FormsNumber FormsNumber Forms are Unicode characters which have specific meaning as numbers, but are constructed from other characters. They consist primarily of vulgar fractions and roman numerals. They are placed in the Unicode codepoint range 0x2150 through 0x218F , except for three fractions in ISO-8859-1...
- 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 formsHalfwidth and Fullwidth FormsIn CJK computing, graphic characters are traditionally classed into fullwidth and halfwidth characters...
- 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 symbolsMathematical alphanumeric symbolsMathematical Alphanumeric Symbols is a Unicode block of Latin and Greek letters and decimal digits that enable mathematicians to denote different notions with different letter styles .Unicode now includes many such symbols Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols is a Unicode block of Latin and Greek...