Cairo is a symbol typeface designed by Susan Kare for Apple Computer's original Mac OS. It is a bitmap font. A Specimen of typeset fonts and languages, by William Caslon, letter founder; from the 1728 Cyclopaedia. ... Susan Kare (* 1954 in Ithaca, New York) is the original designer of many of the interface elements for the original Apple Macintosh after she received a call from friend Andy Hertzfeld in 1983. ... Apple Computer, Inc. ... Mac OS, which stands for Macintosh Operating System, is a series of graphical user interface-based operating systems developed by Apple Computer for their Macintosh line of computer systems. ... An assortment of bitmap fonts from the first version of the Macintosh operating system A bitmap font is one that stores each glyph as an array of pixels (that is, a bitmap). ...

Its most famous glyph is the one for 'z', the famous dogcow. These are the astrological glyphs as most commonly used in Western Astrology A glyph is a specific symbol representing a semantic or phonetic unit of definitive value in a writing system. ... The Dogcow The Dogcow is a bitmapped image first introduced by Apple Computer. ...

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