The History of Clarus the Dogcow #Clarus #Apple #Mac @Apple
Via 512 pixels, while the Apple of today is a gleaming white wall of corporate press releases and carefully-timed keynotes, long-time fans of the company can remember a time when the company had far more personality. One such story is of Clarus the Dogcow.
Spot Clarus
Cairo was the original dingbat font and would probably have been forgotten by history — like most of the other original Macintosh fonts — if it hadn’t been for two things: a game that used the font’s elements and the character in the z position: a small creature named “Clarus.”
Clarus also enjoyed great prominence — being present on the page setup dialog box for many versions of the Mac system’s printer software, reminding users which orientation their print job would be using:
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