Charles bigelow type designer biography

  • Charles A. Bigelow (born July 29, 1945) is an American type historian, professor, and designer.
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  • Bigelow studies the history and theory of typography, writes poetry, designs phonetic fonts for Native American languages and literature, and.

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    Seeing Rochester signs through Chuck Bigelow’s eyes

    A neighbor and I were walking together one evening near our homes when we found ourselves at a corner facing a street sign.

    “Not the best choice of fonts,” he said, looking up at the sign.

    “How so?” I asked.

    “Look inside the e, the d, and the two a’s. There’s almost no space in them; they’re clogged. And the space between the s and the p is tight, but between the n and a there’s a gap; it’s loose. The rhythm’s uneven. For some people, it could be hard to read.”

    That was just the beginning; he shared a much longer analysis of the problems with the typeface.

    I might have dismissed the critique except my neighbor is Charles Bigelow, an award-winning, internationally-known typographer. With his design partner (and now wife) Kris Holmes, Bigelow created some of the earliest and most widely used computer fonts, including the well-known family of fonts called “Lucida.” He’s consulted for tech giants like Apple, IBM, Adobe, and Microsoft. And at age 37, he was one of the first and among the younger recipients of a MacArthur Fellowship—the so-called “Genius Grant.”

    So, if my neighbor thinks the town of Brighton might have chosen a better font for our street sign, I’m inclined to believe him.

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    Charles Bigelow (type designer)

    American graphic and type designer

    Charles A. Bigelow

    Bigelow in 1987

    Born (1945-07-29) July 29, 1945 (age 79)

    Detroit, Michigan, U.S.

    EducationReed College (BA)
    OccupationType designer

    Charles A. Bigelow (born July 29, 1945) is an American 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, the Frederic W. Goudy Award in 1987, Sloan Science and Film screenwriting awards in 2001 and 2002, and other honors. Along with Kris Holmes, he is the co-creator of Lucida and Wingdings font families. He is a principal of the Bigelow and Holmes studio.

    Bigelow received a BA in anthropology in Reed College and was a professor of digital typography at Stanford University from 1982 to 1995. As president of the Committee on Letterform Research and Education of ATypI, he organized the first international seminar on digital type design: "The Computer and the Hand in Type Design", at Stanford in 1983.

    In mid-2006, Bigelow was appointed to the Melbert B. Cary Distinguished Professorship at Rochester Institute of Technology.[1] At RIT, he co-organized the 2010 international symposium on