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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 /Library/Fonts/Apple Symbols.ttf. From Mac OS X 10.5 onward, it 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.

It remains available in modern macOS versions such as macOS Ventura.^[1]

List of glyphs

The Mac OS X version of the font contains over 5,000 glyphs from the following Unicode 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 Symbols
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 Recognition
U+2500 – U+257F — Box Drawing
U+2580 – U+259F — Block Elements
U+25A0 – U+25FF — Geometric Shapes
U+2600 – U+26FF — Miscellaneous Symbols
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 — Deseret
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

History

Apple lists this font as copyrighted 2003.

Mac OS X 10.3

Apple Symbols was introduced with the following:

Mac OS X 10.4

Version 5.0d5e1 contains glyph variants and new glyphs for the following Unicode blocks:

Mac OS X 10.5

Apple Symbols was significantly extended for its Mac OS X 10.5 “Leopard” release — version 6.0d7e4 (2007/08/03) — and had its glyph repertoire more than tripled. 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 Forms
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 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+1D360 – U+1D37F — Counting Rod Numerals
U+1D400 – U+1D7FF — Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols

References

^ "Fonts included with macOS Ventura". Apple Support. 5 December 2022. Retrieved 31 December 2022.

macOS typefaces

Latin, Greek, Cyrillic

Serif	Academy Engraved American Typewriter Athelas Baskerville MT Big Caslon Bodoni 72 Canela Cochin Charter Didot Domaine Georgia Hoefler Text Iowan Old Style Marion New York Produkt Publico STIX Fonts Superclarendon Palatino PT Serif Rockwell Times, Times New Roman

Sans-serif	Adelle Sans Arial, Arial Rounded, Arial Unicode MS Avenir, Avenir Next DIN Druk Euphemia UCAS Founders Grotesk Futura Geneva Gill Sans Graphik Helvetica, Helvetica Neue Impact Lucida Grande Microsoft Sans Serif Myriad Arabic Noto Sans October PT Sans Optima Phosphate Proxima Nova San Francisco Seravek Skia Tahoma Trebuchet MS Verdana

Monospaced	Andalé Mono Apple Braille Courier, Courier New Menlo Monaco PT Mono SF Mono Spot Mono

Script / Display	Apple Chancery Bradley Hand Bold Brush Script MT Chalkboard Chalkduster Comic Sans Copperplate Herculanum Luminari Marker Felt Noteworthy Pilgiche Papyrus Quotes Sauber Script Savoye LET SignPainter Snell Roundhand Trattatello Zapfino

Non-alphabetic

List of typefaces included with macOS

Unicode

Code points

Characters

Special purpose	BOM Combining grapheme joiner Left-to-right mark / Right-to-left mark Soft hyphen Variant form Word joiner Zero-width joiner Zero-width non-joiner Zero-width space
Lists	Characters CJK Unified Ideographs Combining character Duplicate characters Numerals Scripts Spaces Symbols Halfwidth and fullwidth Alias names and abbreviations Whitespace characters

Processing

Algorithms	Bidirectional text Collation ISO/IEC 14651 Equivalence Variation sequences International Ideographs Core
Comparison of encodings	BOCU-1 CESU-8 Punycode SCSU UTF-1 UTF-7 UTF-8 UTF-16/UCS-2 UTF-32/UCS-4 UTF-EBCDIC

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code points

Usage

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