Designer
Susan Kare
Drew the original Macintosh icons and typefaces, pixel by pixel on graph paper.
Susan Kare is an American artist and graphic designer, who contributed interface elements and typefaces for the first Apple Macintosh personal computer from 1983 to 1986. She was employee #10 and creative director at NeXT, the company formed by Steve Jobs after he left Apple in 1985. She has worked as a design consultant to Microsoft, IBM, Sony Pictures, Facebook, and Pinterest. As of 2023, Kare is employed at Niantic Labs. 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.
- Born
- 1954-02-05, Ithaca, USAA Friday
- At birth
- Sun in Aquarius, Moon in Pisces
- Nationality
- United States
- Birth-time source
- No birth time on record: Rodden X
Born
At birth
Nationality
Birth-time sourceBirth Chart
1954-02-05, Ithaca, USA · time unknown, noon chart
America/New_Yorkthe zone used then
America/New_YorkThe chart
| Body | Sign | Degree | Motion |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Aquarius | 16°22′ | Direct |
| Moon | Pisces | 13°57′ | Direct |
| Mercury | Pisces | 1°34′ | Direct |
| Venus | Aquarius | 17°59′ | Direct |
| Mars | Scorpio | 27°42′ | Direct |
| Jupiter | Gemini | 16°27′ | Retrograde |
| Saturn | Scorpio | 9°14′ | Direct |
| Uranus | Cancer | 20°01′ | Retrograde |
| Neptune | Libra | 26°02′ | Retrograde |
| Pluto | Leo | 23°58′ | Retrograde |
Susan Kare is alive, so there is one chart here rather than two. The death chart is cast for a documented moment of death and there is nothing to cast one for, which is the point: this site does not estimate either end.
Their Astrocartography
Where each planet sat on one of the four angles at the moment Susan Kare was born. Tap a line to read what the tradition associates with it.
Cast for noon, as the birth time is unknown, so the longitudes are approximate.