Question

How did Steve Jobs’ interest in calligraphy in college benefit him professionally later on?

Answer 1

Maybe he developed a sense of how to make simple things appealing and it helped him go on to make Apple computers, iphones, etc

Answer 2

After taking the course of calligraphy that the university offered him and learning about typography and the spaces between letters, when he designed the mac, he made his earnings there as he was the first computer with beautiful typographies.

Steve mentions that if he had never taken that specific course, the Mac would neved has multiple fonts of characters with proportional space.

In this way he benefited in a professional way the interest he had in calligraphy at the university.