Vincent Connare

Vincent Connare

Vincent Connare is a former Microsoft in-house font designer. Amongst his creations are the Comic Sans font,and the Trebuchet MS font, both of which ship as standard on current releases of Microsoft Windows. Besides text typefaces he finalized and hinted the font Marlett which has been used for scalable User Interface icons in Microsoft Windows since 1995 and created portions of the font Webdings that was first shipped with Internet Explorer.

He currently works in the UK for Dalton Maag, an independent font design studio.

References

* [http://www.microsoft.com/typography/hinting/tutorial.htm Basic hinting philosophies and TrueType instructions:Microsoft Corporatıon]
* [http://www.microsoft.com/typography/developers/fdsspec/overview.aspx Character Design Standards:Microsoft Corporation]
* [http://www.microsoft.com/typography/ProductionGuidelines.mspx Hinting and Production Guidelines: Microsoft Corporation]
* [http://www.springerlink.com/content/g0fkuul9behtqyge/ Designing and Using Scalable Type for Display as Graphic Elements on Digital Devices. Lecture notes in Computer Science, Springer]
* [http://www.microsoft.com/typography/tools/fttff.aspx From Typeface to Font File by Vincent Connare (not Beat Stamm) : Microsoft Corporation]
* [http://www.microsoft.com/typography/FontDeliverySpec.mspx Microsoft Font Delivery Specification]
* [http://www.connare.com/essays.htm The Type Designs of William Addison Dwiggins]

External links

* [http://www.connare.com/ Vincent Connare's website]
* [http://www.connare.com/typography.htm Vincent Connare's typography page]
* [http://www.daltonmaag.com/ Dalton Maag Ltd. London]
* [http://www.bancomicsans.com/ Stop the Madness]

ee also

* Core fonts for the Web


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