Monaco

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Credits

Designer(s)
Susan Kare, Kris Holmes, Charles Bigelow
Foundry(ies)
Apple
Release Year
1984
Country of Origin
United States
Classification
Sans Serif
Original Format
Bitmap
Distributor(s)
Apple
Tags
monospace

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The monospace typeface was designed as a bitmap, and later transformed into a TrueType form. Although it shipped with Mac OS X through to 10.5, Monaco was available as early as System 6. In Mac OS X 10.6, Monaco was replaced by Menlo.

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