When you have a Mac PC, MacBook or iMac, you can type all the symbols. Whether it is a copyright symbol ©, a trademark symbol or a registered symbol. Everything is possible with Mac computer.

Copyrights are applicable on books, magazines, DVDs, software and online content as well. When you create something unique on your own, you should make it copyright protected. Many Mac users are still unaware of how to type the copyright symbol on Mac.

You should read this article carefully to learn all possible ways to type copyright symbol on Mac to make your work copyright protected.

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How to Type the Copyright Symbol on Mac

Now, we will explain the different ways of typing the copyright symbol on Mac for different software and work apps.

#1. Type Copyright Symbol with Keyboard Shortcut on Mac

The fastest way to type the copyright symbol on Mac computer is to use the keyboard shortcut. The Mac Keyboard supports many shortcuts that make your typing task easier and let you type a variety of symbols in no time. The mac keyboard shortcut for copyright symbol is Option+G.

As mentioned above, you need to hold down the “Option” key on your Mac keyboard and the press the “G” key. Then leave both the keys and you will see that the copyright symbol © is appearing on your Mac screen.

#2. Type Copyright Symbol in Apple iWork and Office 365

With a Mac computer system, you need to use Apple iWork and Office 365 for creating and editing document files. At the time of preparing a document, presentation or cover, you need to add the copyright symbol with its name.

If you are using Apple iWork then you can type the copyright symbol on Mac with help of the Option+G keyboard shortcut. But the same shortcut does not work in Office 365 documents like Word, PowerPoint or others.

In Office 365 on Mac, you need to select “Insert” option and go to Advanced Symbols. Here, you will find the copyright symbol © under both the symbols category and special characters category.

In case you are still using the older version of Office 365 on Mac, you need to find the copyright symbol under “Trade” category. After finding the copyright symbol, just click on it to insert it into your document.

#3. Use AutoCorrect Feature to Type Copyright Symbol on Mac

When you go to Insert>Advanced Symbols option, you will see a small window showing various symbols and special characters. Here you need to click on the “AutoCorrect” option given right below the list symbols.

After clicking on “AutoCorrect” tab, you should Enable the feature titled as “Automatically correct spelling and format as you need” and close the symbols window. Thereafter, whenever you type (c) in a document, the AutoCorrect will change it into the copyright symbol ©.

#4. Use Option Code Shortcut to Type Copyright Symbol on Mac

The Mac operating system supports Option Code shortcut for inserting the copyright symbol. Before we tell you the option code to type © on Mac, you need to change the keyboard input source to Unicode Hex Input on your Mac. After changing it, you should type “Option+00A9” and the copyright symbol will be typed on your Mac screen.

#5. Use Character Viewer to Type Copyright Symbol on Mac

When working on a document (of Apple iWork or similar), you can use the keyboard shortcut for typing copyright symbol. In addition, you can also open the character viewer and insert symbol from it.

In order to open Character Viewer on Mac, you need to open Edit menu and select “Emoji & Symbols” or you can press Control+Command+Spacebar to open Character Viewer on screen. Here you should search for copyright and select the symbol to insert it into your document.

#6. Type Copyright Symbol in HTML, CSS and JavaScript

It is not necessary that you need to type the copyright symbol in normal documents only. If you are a programmer or web developer, you need to insert the copyright symbol into an HTML or CSS or JavaScript on Mac as a part of your coding work.

• You can use © code for HTML Entity Decimal, © code for HTML Entity Hexadecimal and © code for HTML Entity Name to type the copyright symbol.
• You can use 00A9; code for CSS value and u00A9 code for JavaScript Escape String to insert the copyright symbol.

#7. Type Copyright Symbol with Enclosed Latin Letter C

In order to type the copyright symbol with enclosed Latin letter C on Mac, you need to use the following option codes.

• Use Option+24B8 code to type circled Latin capital letter C as Ⓒ.
• Use Option+24D2 code to type circled Latin small letter c as ⓒ.

#8. Type Music Copyright Symbol on Mac

When we are talking about all copyrights, how can we miss the music or sound copyrights. You need to type the music copyright symbol on Mac and you don’t know how to insert it. Don’t worry, we are here with a simple option code that will help you do it.

Use Option+2117 code to type the music copyright symbol ℗ on Mac.

Final Words:

In this article, we have explained all the possible ways to type the copyright symbol on Mac. You can apply one or more methods as per your needs to insert copyright symbol in various documents and other works. If you have any doubt or query regarding typing the copyright symbol on Mac computers then you can ask us in the comment section.

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1. Fonts in Mac OS X: Font Formats

Fonts in Mac OS X: Font Formats

Given the complexities involved, Apple did a great job of implementing fonts in Mac OS X. For the casual user of Mac OS X, working with fonts included in Mac OS X is as simple as selecting a font and using it. The user will also be able to switch to different languages with greater ease than in Mac OS 9. But for users who want to add and delete their own fonts, who have problems getting certain fonts to work, or who have troubleshooting symptoms that may be font-related, this section provides essential background.

More than one type of font can be used on a Macintosh. As font formats are not a Mac OS X-specific issue, I will not go into great detail on font formats for this Mac OS X book. But especially for those who are new to the subject, following is a brief overview.

TrueType fonts

TrueType fonts are Apple's preferred type of font for Mac OS X. Most or all of the fonts that ship with Mac OS X are TrueType fonts. With TrueType, the font displays and prints smoothly (with no irregular jagged edges), no matter what size (such as 10 point vs. 13 point) or style (such as plain text vs. bold) you select.

For this feature to work, you need only a single font file for a given TrueType font. However, there will often be separate style variations within a font file (such as Times Italic and Times Bold). Without these variations present, you will not be able to select different styles for a given font in most Mac OS X applications.

Windows PCs can also use TrueType fonts, but a Windows TrueType font file has a somewhat different format from a Mac TrueType font. Fortunately, Mac OS X recognizes the following Windows versions of TrueType fonts: TrueType fonts (with the extension .ttf) and TrueType collections (with the extension .ttc). Note: Mac OS X believes that any font with a .ttf extension is a Windows TrueType font, so don't use this extension for Mac TrueType fonts.

PostScript fonts

These font files contain the PostScript instructions needed to print to PostScript-supported printers. If you don't have a printer that includes PostScript support, you are better off avoiding PostScript fonts and sticking with TrueType ones, if possible. No PostScript fonts ship with Mac OS X, but you may have some in your Mac OS 9 System Folder or may have added PostScript fonts to your Mac OS X System folder.

In Mac OS 9, you could not display PostScript fonts on the screen. PostScript fonts are printer font files that contain instructions only for printing the text to a PostScript printer. A matching screen font version (either a bitmap or TrueType version) was needed for display. This screen/printer font pairing did not always work well. Often, what you saw on the screen was different from what was printed. This situation improved significantly with the release of Adobe Type Manager (ATM). This utility uses the PostScript printer's font instructions to display the fonts on the screen.

ATM does not work in Mac OS X, but it is not really needed. Whereas Mac OS 9 used a technology called QuickDraw to display fonts, Mac OS X uses Quartz. Quartz can display PostScript printer font information with no additional software (such as ATM) required. Note: ATM still works in Classic for displaying text in Classic applications.

You may still need at least one matching TrueType or bitmap font to get some PostScript fonts (with a type of LWFN, as displayed by a utility such as XRay) to be listed in Fonts menus. PostScript fonts of the SFNT type should work without any separate matching version needed.

PostScript Multiple Master fonts (font files that end with MM) are not yet supported in Mac OS X.

OpenType fonts

This font format is relatively new, designed jointly by Microsoft and Adobe. A touted advantage of OpenType is that the same font file works on both the Mac and Windows platforms. At this writing, most Mac users still use TrueType instead of OpenType. OpenType fonts typically have the extension .otf. Microsoft started OpenType as an attempt to free itself from its dependence on Apple's TrueType. In a sense, the two formats are competitors.

Bitmap fonts

These fonts are the oldest type of fonts and are rarely used anymore. These fonts require a separate file for each size of the font (Times 10, Times 12, Times 14, and so on). If you select a size that does not have a separate file, the font will be jagged.

Although you may get these fonts to work in Mac OS X, especially when you're working in Classic, they are not supported, so you should avoid them. Especially avoid older bitmapped versions of Chinese/Japanese/Korean/ Vietnamese language fonts; these fonts will not work in Mac OS X. Also, older bitmapped fonts of the type FONT are not supported. Fonts of the type NFNT are supported for Classic/QuickDraw applications but ignored by applications based on Cocoa (such as TextEdit).

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True Type fonts, in Chapter 3, for more information on type and creator codes.

Figure 4.13 The FileXaminer utility, showing the type, creator, and extension data for two TrueType fonts: (left) a dfont file in the System folder Library and (right) a OS9-type file in the User's Home directory Library.

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Font Suitcases

In Mac OS 9, a font could exist as an individual file or as one of several font files in a font suitcase. Mac OS X does not make this distinction as clearly. In particular, a font suitcase file in Mac OS X typically appears in the Finder exactly as a single font file does. In describing fonts in Mac OS X, Apple often uses the term suitcase to refer to virtually all font files.

Similarly, in Mac OS 9, if you wanted to remove a font file from a font suitcase, you could double-click the suitcase icon to open a window displaying its contents. Then you could drag a font file from the suitcase to remove it. You cannot do this in Mac OS X.

Thus, to remove a font from a suitcase file, the simplest approach is to reboot in Mac OS 9 and modify the font suitcase as desired via the Finder. Otherwise, you may find utilities that let you do this from Mac OS X (either in Mac OS X itself or via Classic), but I have not found any good ones so far.

A suitcase can contain unrelated fonts (such as Times and Helvetica). As a result, I prefer not to include mixed suitcases in Mac OS X, as the name of the font will likely give no clue about the variety of fonts within. In general, restrict suitcase files to the Mac OS 9 Classic System Folder, assuming that you need to use them at all.

More generally, it's wise to avoid as many Mac OS 9 Fonts as possible. These older fonts remain a too-common source of problems.

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'Check fonts,' in Chapter 5, for more on troubleshooting font problems.

Figure 4.14 An Error message that may appear when you try to open a font in Mac OS X.

Figure 4.15 (Left) TrueType font file icon and font suitcase icon as viewed when booted in Mac OS 9; (right) the icons for the same files after rebooting in Mac OS X.

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Opening Font Files in the Finder

In the Mac OS 9 Finder, if you double-clicked an individual font file, a window displayed what the characters in that font looked like. If you double-clicked a font suitcase, it opened to list all the fonts in that suitcase.

In Mac OS X, this method no longer works. Typically, double-clicking most types of font files in Mac OS X leads to an error message, stating,'There is no application available to open document {name of font}.' If you happen to have the ancient Font/DA Mover utility on your drive, fonts may launch that utility in Classic; but don't expect it to work very well.

If you want to duplicate the Mac OS 9 Finder feature for fonts, the best solution I have found is a freeware utility called X Font Info. If you drag any font file or font suitcase to this application's icon, a window shows the name and kind (such as TrueType) of the font, as well as the alphabet in the characters of the font itself. In addition, two pop-up menus allow you to see this display in different styles (bold or italic, for example) and sizes. If the file you opened is a font suitcase that contains multiple fonts, the Font pop-up menu allows you to choose among the fonts in the suitcase.

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You can go one better, however. When you double-click a font file, it can launch X Font Info, coming close to duplicating the Mac OS 9 Finder effect. To do this, follow these steps:

1. Select almost any TrueType font in the Mac OS X /Library or /System/Library folder.

2. Press Command-I to open the Show Info window for the font.

3. Choose Open with Application from the pop-up menu in the Show Info window. The default application listed will likely be Finder, nothing, or (amazingly!) the old pre-Mac OS 9 Font/DA Mover 4.1.

4. Click the box next to the application name and choose Other from the pop-up menu.

5. From the pop-up menu list, choose X Font Info as the new application. If X Font Info is not in the list, select the 'Other...' item to locate it.

6. Click the Change All button so that all font files of the same type also open with this application.

Now, any similar font files that you double-click should launch X Font Info and display the font. If you selected an Mac OS 9-style TrueType font initially, this technique probably will not affect TrueType .dfont files. If so, simply repeat the procedure after selecting a .dfont file.

Overall, this method has worked well for me. There is a chance, however, that some font files may not display their Finder icon after you do this. And I have heard one report that this conversion prevented some fonts from being displayed in Microsoft Word and perhaps other applications. But this problem has never happened for me.

Figure 4.16 The 'Open with application' option in a font file's Show Info window.

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Figure 4.17 The X Font Info window.