Charles Bigelow (type designer)

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]

Designed fonts

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

Publications

• The design of a Unicode font
• Notes on Apple 4 Fonts

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.

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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