Vincent Connare
| Vincent Connare | |
|---|---|
 Vincent Connare in 2012 | |
| Born |
September 26, 1960 Boston, Massachusetts, United States |
| Nationality | British-American |
| Education | University of Reading, New York Institute of Technology, Milford High School (Massachusetts) |
| Occupation | Typeface designer, photographer |
| Known for | Comic Sans, Trebuchet MS, Webdings, Marlett, Microsoft |
| Website | http://www.connare.com/ |
Vincent Connare (born September 26, 1960 in Boston, Massachusetts)[1][2] is a British-American typeface designer and former Microsoft employee. Amongst his creations are the Comic Sans font, and the Trebuchet MS font. 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.
Education
Connare studied at Milford High School in Milford, Massachusetts and the New York Institute of Technology, and gained a master's degree in Type Design at the University of Reading.[1][3]
See also
References
Connare explains how he came to create 'the world's favourite font' in 2009.
- Influencers & Innovation presented: Huffington Post/Horizon
- Basic hinting philosophies and TrueType instructions:Microsoft Corporatıon
- Character Design Standards:Microsoft Corporation
- Hinting and Production Guidelines: Microsoft Corporation
- Designing and Using Scalable Type for Display as Graphic Elements on Digital Devices. Lecture notes in Computer Science, Springer
- From Typeface to Font File: Microsoft Corporation
- Microsoft Font Delivery Specification
- The Type Designs of William Addison Dwiggins
- Just My Type: A Book About Fonts by Simon Garfield
- 1 2 Macmillan, Neil (2006). "An A-Z of type designers". Page 68 - Vincent Connare b.1960 USA. Yale University Press. Retrieved October 21, 2010.
- ↑ "Vincent Connare". MyFonts. Bitstream. Retrieved October 21, 2010.
- ↑ "Vincent Connare". Designers. Typophile. Retrieved October 21, 2010.
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