Vincent Connare
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Vincent Connare was a Microsoft in-house font designer. Amongst his creations are the controversial 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.