Charles Bigelow
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American graphic and type designer
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Communications
#1260
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#1916
Historical Rank
#634
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Graphic Design
#45
World Rank
#52
Historical Rank
#16
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Charles A. Bigelow 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.
Charles Bigelow 's Published Works
Published Works
- Does print size matter for reading? A review of findings from vision science and typography. (2011) (213)
- Digital typography (1987) (56)
- P‐13: Serifs Slow RSVP Reading at Very Small Sizes, but Don't Matter at Larger Sizes (2002) (30)
- The Design of a Unicode Font (1993) (26)
- Fonts Designed for Macular Degeneration: Impact on Reading (2018) (19)
- Typeface features and legibility research (2019) (17)
- Text processing and document manipulation: The Design of Lucida®: an Integrated Family of Types for Electronic Literacy (1986) (14)
- Does print size matter for reading ? (2011) (6)
- Sustainable by design: an investigation into ecologically friendly typography (2011) (2)
- A formal approach to lettershape description for type design (1983) (2)
- Collecting historical font metrics from Google Books (2012) (2)
- Do image descriptions underlie word recognition in reading? (2010) (2)
- Notes on Apple 4 Fonts (1991) (2)
- Robert Bringhurst, The elements of typographic style (1999) (1)
- Fine Print on Type: The Best of Fine Print Magazine on Type and Typography (1990) (1)
- The Font Wars, Part 2 (2020) (1)
- EP-odds and ends: notes on Apple 4 Fonts (1991) (1)
- Book reviews: Robert Granjon, letter-cutter, and Granjon's Flowers, by Hendrik D.L. Vervliet (2020) (1)
- Form, pattern & texture in the typographic image (2021) (0)
- The Galaxy: The Man, Coding of Characters,” Staff Writer, “Display PostScript is Sun’s Way Out of Its NeWS Bind,” Computer Business (2020) (0)
- About the DK versions of Lucida (2015) (0)
- Securing continuous clean power: considerations to be made when constructing facilities utilizing sensitive or never off line electrical equipment. (1986) (0)
- Reflecting on 50 Years of Typography (2016) (0)
- Proceedings of the typography interest group ACM CHI'85 (1985) (0)
- Font formats (panel session) (1985) (0)
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