Charles Bigelow (typographer)
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Charles Bigelow is an American type designer and typographer best known as the co-creator of the Lucida and Wingdings typeface families.
Observed surface forms (4)
| Surface form | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Charles Bigelow | 0 |
| Lucida typeface family | 0 |
| Wingdings typeface family | 0 |
| Bigelow & Holmes | 0 |
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic
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human ⓘ symbol font ⓘ type designer ⓘ type foundry ⓘ typeface family ⓘ typographer ⓘ |
| activeIn |
20th century
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21st century ⓘ |
| coCreatorOf |
Lucida typeface family
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Wingdings typeface family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coDesignedWith | Kris Holmes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coFounded | Bigelow & Holmes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| designer |
Charles Bigelow
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Kris Holmes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University
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Washington State University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer |
Rochester Institute of Technology
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Stanford University ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
digital fonts
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type design ⓘ typography ⓘ |
| foundry | Bigelow & Holmes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | type design essays ⓘ |
| hasPartnershipWith | Kris Holmes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasWrittenOn |
digital font technology
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history of typography ⓘ legibility research ⓘ |
| knownFor |
humanist sans-serif type design
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screen-optimized typefaces ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableStudent | students of digital typography at Stanford University ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Lucida typeface family
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Wingdings typeface family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
professor
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type designer ⓘ typographer ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Kaye Professor of Typography at Rochester Institute of Technology NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publisher | Microsoft NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| script |
Cyrillic script
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Greek script ⓘ Latin script ⓘ |
| use |
pictographic symbols
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printing ⓘ user interfaces ⓘ |
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