looking for New York (1983) font

[fernan]

Hi John!

I came across this repo, seems like a nice resource compiling a good deal of history of Apple Fonts. I am looking for the old New York Apple typeface https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_(1983_typeface), which is not the same as the 2019 one (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_(2019_typeface).

The latter is available for Developers from Apple: https://developer.apple.com/fonts/, I am looking for the TrueType 1983 version of New York developed by Susan Kare.

I've been able to look into the *.dfont files you have here: NewYork_15.dfont NewYork_17.dfont NewYork_21.dfont NewYork_22.dfont NewYork_26.dfont

But upon converting them to .ttf using fondu in Ubuntu/Linux, and inspecting them with FontForge they seem to be the old bitmap versions pre-dating MacOS 7.

# this is on windows wsl - ubuntu 
sudo apt install fondu
fondu NewYork_15.dfont
# produces NewYork_15.ttf

This is how they loook in FontForge:

I have browsed your repo and couldn't find other instances of New York fonts for Mac OS 7 through 9, do you carry these in this repo? Otherwise do you have any pointers on where to look?

thanks in advance -- fernan

[JohnDDuncanIII]

Hi @fernan. The bitmap conversions for New York are stored in https://github.com/JohnDDuncanIII/macfonts/tree/master/Macintosh%20OS%201-6/OS%20X.

I think you're looking for https://github.com/JohnDDuncanIII/macfonts/blob/master/Macintosh%20OS%209/New%20York.

Due to Github limitations (https://github.com/JohnDDuncanIII/macfonts/issues/3), these resource fork fonts are empty. I've added a TODO to compress + upload the zip to the repo.

For now, please just unzip it directly here: New York.zip. I've included both the resource fork font and the fontforge .sfd.

[fernan]

Thanks! That did it! I did find that part of the repo, but as you said I was sent away by the 0 bytes (empty) length of the file. Thanks @JohnDDuncanIII