Vincent Connare
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Vincent Connare is a former Microsoft in-house font designer. Amongst his creations are the 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.
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[edit] References in Popular Culture
- On July 05, 2007 Chris Onstad's Achewood entailed the cast of the characters finding "THE SON OF A BITCH WHO INVENTED COMIC SANS!"; chasing him shouting, "What do you think you are running from? The disease is inside of you!" before beating him to a pulp shouting, "NOTHING CAN DO WHAT YOU'VE UNDONE! and, "HE WANTS TO TASTE THE CURB! HE WANTS TO TASTE THE FUCKING CURB!"[1]
[edit] References
- 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 by Vincent Connare (not Beat Stamm) : Microsoft Corporation
- Microsoft Font Delivery Specification
- The Type Designs of William Addison Dwiggins
[edit] External links
- Vincent Connare's website
- Vincent Connare's typography page
- Dalton Maag Ltd. London
- Stop the Madness
[edit] See also
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