Even if you don’t know the name Susan Kare, you know her work. Indeed, depending on your tech setup, your finger might have just been tapping on an icon she made for Apple in the early ’80s.

Kare is a typeface and icon designer who was on the Macintosh team charged with creating the operating system’s original fonts. And because of her MontCo roots, the fonts that came to be known as Venice, New York and Geneva were once named after stops on the SEPTA Regional Rail’s R5 line — briefly, until Steve Jobs stepped in.

That delightful local tie is why Technical.ly is giving her a shoutout in our editorial series connecting innovators of Philly’s past to its modern understanding of innovation ahead of Philly Tech Week 2020 presented by Comcast. (See our recent look at Black abolitionist James Forten’s legacy for the series.)

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