@gruber.foo Might be mildly interesting to you – just yesterday I was looking at the 1984 Mac manual, and I spotted a few screenshots of the UI with pre-release Chicago… with single-storey “a.”
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I gave a talk last year and part of it was resurrecting some pre-release Chicago versions. It’s fun to see it evolve from a more generic font through some blind alleys to its final form. The mvwMVW glyphs are fascinating.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDI8ubVZi7w
https://daringfireball.net/2025/05/single_story_a_classic_mac_system_1
Ironically even Clippy, and even the goddamn *Microsoft Bob* double-storeyed their “a”s.
https://www.omniglot.com/writing/carolingian.htm