Gallery: Meet the Woman Who Launched a Billion Clicks
01Susan Kare Command icon
In the foreword to *Icons*, Steve Silberman notes that the "command" icon, found on nearly every Apple keyboard and described as a stylized castle seen from above, was originally a common symbol used at Swedish campgrounds to denote an interesting sightseeing location.
02Susan Kare Spotted dog from Cairo font
"This icon was originally a dog character in the Cairo 'hieroglyphic' font that shipped with the original Macintosh," Kare writes in *Icons*. "A version of this image was used in Mac software for a time to indicate portrait or landscape mode."
03Susan Kare floppy disk icon
"This icon meant 'save' and was created when saving to a disk was the only option," Kare writes in Icons. "It continued to be a symbol as hard disks became commonplace, but illustrates why a metaphor as a solution would have been better for icon longevity." Circa 1984.
04Susan Kare fill icon
"The pouring paint can was the cursor for 'fill' in the original MacPaint application; the 'hot spot' was the single pixel at the lower edge of the paint," Kare writes in *Icons*.
05Susan Kare MacPaint Pencil icon
"This was the cursor for freehand drawing in MacPaint, angled so the 'hot spot' at the bottom edge of the point could also be used for toggling single pixels from black to white," Kare writes in *Icons*.
06Susan Kare watch cursor
The stopwatch, Kare's effort to modernize the standard hourglass "wait" icon.
07Susan Kare trash icon
Trash, one of Kare's most classic Mac icons.
08Susan Kare SPJ 2011
Steve Jobs, 2011
U.S. Patent number: 81437, Issue date: 1868)09Susan-Kare-Queen-of-hearts-Windows-3-solitaire-card
"A playing card from the windows 3.0 Solitaire deck, which was limited to the VGA 16-color palatte," Kare writes in *Icons*.
10Susan Kare Dog
In *Icons*, Kare states that this 11-pixel-tall dog face icon is described as resembling an Australian shepherd named Becca.
11Cigarette icon
"The cigarette was one of a collection of 'bad habits' icons designed for a bookstore at the Museum of Modern Art in New York," Kare writes in *Icons*.
