Chicago Kare

Faithful bitmap reproduction of Susan Kare's 1984 Mac "Chicago" UI typeface.

Website Source

Waterfall

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

Character set

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ

abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz

0123456789

!@#$%&*()[]{}<>,.;:'"?/—–-+=

Paragraph

Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form. It shapes how words are read, felt and remembered — from wayfinding on a station platform to the small print of a contract. Good type disappears into reading; great type gives a voice to the text.

Install

Self-host

Download the font files from GitHub and serve them yourself:

Declare with @font-face

@font-face {
  font-family: "Chicago Kare";
  src: url("/fonts/chicago-kare.woff2") format("woff2");
  font-display: swap;
}

Details

Designer: Duane King (orig. Susan Kare, 1984)
Licence: MIT
Format: Static