Charles Bigelow (type designer)

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Charles A. Bigelow (b. 1945, Detroit, Michigan) is a type historian, professor, and designer. 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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Designed fonts

  • Leviathan
  • Syntax Phonetic
  • Lucida
  • Apple Chicago
  • Apple Geneva

Publications

References

  1. ^ Charles Bigelow to be next Cary Professor at RIT
  • Macmillan, Neil. An A–Z of Type Designers. Yale University Press: 2006. ISBN 0-300-11151-7.

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