Rev. Robert Palladino, Scribe Who Shaped Apple’s Fonts, Dies at 83

I frankly never believed Jobs's story about "auditing" the typography class.

Back in the day, there was a lot of worry in the computer industry about getting sued for copying "look and feel" of software developed elsewhere. I think Jobs story about being all about fonts was conveniently "remembered" after he visited Xerox PARC and determined that Apple should build on the WYSIWYG work PARC had done.

Jobs was a copier (and perversely concerned with being copied, two personality traits that certainly go together in the Freudian sense) and it fits much better that he would see font choices at PARC and suddenly start talking about this course he mysteriously took with no records being kept of it. In his own words from the Reed.edu article, "But 10 years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac.” ha ha ha yeah right. Too bad the dog ate his original copies.

Props to Rev. Palladino though, sounds like a cool guy even if Steve never took his class.

I recently converted all of the classic Macintosh fonts to modern dataforks, if anyone is interested. Clone to ~/Library/Fonts. Warning: If you don't want your system font to turn into Charcoal, remove the 'Charcoal 10.11' folder.

https://github.com/JohnDDuncanIII/ClassicMacintoshFonts

More about Steve’s time at Reed is available in this article: http://www.reed.edu/reed_magazine/december2011/articles/feat...