last highlighted date: 2024-10-31
Highlights
- She has worked as a design consultant to Microsoft, IBM, Sony Pictures, Facebook, and Pinterest. As of 2023 Kare has been an employee of Niantic Labs.[2] As a pioneer of pixel art and of the graphical computer interface, she has been celebrated as one of the most significant designers of modern technology.
- Mac typefaces designed c. 1983–84 by Susan Kare
- However, she had no experience in computer graphics and “didn’t know the first thing about designing a typeface” or pixel art[14] so she drew heavily upon her fine art experience in mosaics, needlepoint, and pointillism.
- He suggested that she get a US$2.50 grid notebook[5][17] of the smallest graph paper she could find at the University Art store in Palo Alto[18] and mock up several 32 × 32 pixel representations of his software commands and applications.[10] This includes an icon of scissors for the “cut” command, a finger for “paste”, and a paintbrush for MacPaint.[15][14]