Background
Bigelow grew up in the Detroit suburbs and attended the Cranbrook School in Bloomfield Hills.
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Charles Bigelow
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Education
Reed College.
Career
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 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.At Rochester Institute of Technology, he co-organized the 2010 international symposium on "The Future of Reading" and the 2012 "Reading Digital" symposium, in which type designers, publication designers, and vision scientists discussed the present and future of reading on digital devices. He retired from teaching at Rochester Institute of Technology in 2012, and is currently Cary Scholar in Residence at the Cary Graphic Arts Collection of the Rochester Institute of Technology Wallace Center.
Leviathan
Syntax Phonetic
Lucida
Lucida Grande
Apple Chicago TrueType
Apple Geneva TrueType
Apple Monaco TrueType
Apple New York TrueType
Wingdings.
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Nationality
United States