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.

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Wingdings typeface family 0

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Predicate Object
instanceOf academic
human
symbol font
type designer
type foundry
typeface family
typographer
activeIn 20th century
21st century
coCreatorOf Lucida typeface family NERFINISHED
Wingdings typeface family NERFINISHED
coDesignedWith Kris Holmes NERFINISHED
coFounded Bigelow & Holmes NERFINISHED
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
designer Charles Bigelow NERFINISHED
Kris Holmes NERFINISHED
educatedAt School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University NERFINISHED
Washington State University NERFINISHED
employer Rochester Institute of Technology NERFINISHED
Stanford University
fieldOfWork digital fonts
type design
typography
foundry Bigelow & Holmes NERFINISHED
genre type design essays
hasPartnershipWith Kris Holmes NERFINISHED
hasWrittenOn digital font technology
history of typography
legibility research
knownFor humanist sans-serif type design
screen-optimized typefaces
languageOfWorkOrName English
notableStudent students of digital typography at Stanford University
notableWork Lucida typeface family NERFINISHED
Wingdings typeface family NERFINISHED
occupation professor
type designer
typographer
positionHeld Kaye Professor of Typography at Rochester Institute of Technology NERFINISHED
publisher Microsoft NERFINISHED
script Cyrillic script
Greek script
Latin script
use pictographic symbols
printing
user interfaces

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