Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 306

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 306. Here are my solutions to them.

1: Where I left my heart in our words since 2015.

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San Francisco

Where I left my heart (I Left My Heart in San Francisco) in our words since 2015 (when it became the system font across all Macs and Apple’s devices, now abbreviated to SF).

2: The first windy city from Susan Kare until 1997.

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Chicago

The first (the first system font on the Mac from 1984) windy city (Chicago) from Susan Kare (she designed the font) until 1997 (when it was replaced by Charcoal).

3: Bigelow and Holmes brought great clarity for the millennium.

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Lucida Grande

Bigelow and Holmes (it was designed by Charles Bigelow and Kris Holmes) brought great (grande) clarity (the origin of Lucida) for the millennium (it was adopted as the system font from 1999-2000 onwards).

The common factor

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They have all been system fonts in Macs, see this brief history.

I look forward to your putting alternative cases.