[HN Gopher] Last Resort Font (Mac) (2002)
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       Last Resort Font (Mac) (2002)
        
       Author : isomorph
       Score  : 49 points
       Date   : 2021-04-25 19:53 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (mirror.informatimago.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (mirror.informatimago.com)
        
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       | ismaildonmez wrote:
       | Not sure if 1:1 as the macOS one but Unicode organization open
       | sourced a last resort font last year: https://github.com/unicode-
       | org/last-resort-font
        
         | fao_ wrote:
         | As per the README from your link: "The Last Resort glyphs were
         | drawn by Apple Inc. and Michael Everson of Evertype."
        
         | sirn wrote:
         | Apple gave LastResort to Unicode Consortium back in 2008[1].
         | 
         | Big Sur currently shipped with version 13.0, so presumably it's
         | the same font (version info obtainable by running
         | `system_profiler SPFontsDataType`).
         | 
         | [1]: https://www.unicode.org/mail-arch/unicode-
         | ml/y2008-m06/0019....
        
         | duskwuff wrote:
         | I'm pretty sure it's the exact same. Both of them use what
         | looks like Chicago (!) as the typeface for the text in the
         | edges.
        
         | reaperducer wrote:
         | The article appears to be from 2002.
        
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