Charles Bigelow (type designer)
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Charles A. Bigelow (b. 1945, Detroit, Michigan) is a type historian, professor, and designer. Bigelow grew up in the Detroit suburbs and attended the Cranbrook School in Bloomfield Hills. He received a MacArthur Fellowship in 1982. Along with Kris Holmes, he is the co-creator of Lucida and Wingdings font families. He runs the Bigelow and Holmes foundry.
In mid-2006, Bigelow accepted the Melbert B. Cary Distinguished Professorship at Rochester Institute of Technology's School of Print Media.[1]
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[edit] Designed fonts
- Leviathan
- Syntax Phonetic
- Lucida
- Apple Chicago
- Apple Geneva
- Wingdings
[edit] Publications
[edit] References
- Macmillan, Neil. An A–Z of Type Designers. Yale University Press: 2006. ISBN 0-300-11151-7.
[edit] External links
- Type Designers - Charles Bigelow (Ascender Corporation)
- Font Designer - Charles Bigelow (Linotype)
- Identifont: Charles Bigelow
- List of Charles Bigelow publications
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