Chicago

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Chicago

What is the Chicago font?

This Apple system font was designed as a bitmap by Susan Kare, and used for menus and buttons throughout the operating system — a large part of the Mac’s cute appeal. (The friendly icons were also designed by Kare.) More recently the Chicago design was made into a scalable TrueType font by the Bigelow and Holmes studio, but at small sizes on screen the new font is identical to Kare’s.
For Mac OS 8, Apple decided to discard this wonderful part of their brand’s identity, and commissioned David Berlow of the Font Bureau to design Charcoal.

Chicago Font families

The Chicago includes the following font families:

  • Chicago

Chicago Preview

Here is a preview of how Chicago will look. For more previews using your own text as an example, click here.


Is Chicago Free to Download?

No. This is a premium font that you can download from MyFonts.com Please don't waste your time looking for a free download of Chicago as you just won't find it.

It's highly unlikely that this font can be found for free on the web. If you do, then potentially you'll risk getting viruses on your computer. One thing to remember is that it's illegal to use this font if you didn't pay for it!

Do the right thing. If you want Chicago then click here to visit the download and purchase page on MyFonts to get it with the proper license. The designer and publisher deserves to be paid for their hard work. :)