Charles Bigelow (type designer)

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Charles A. Bigelow (born July 29, 1945) is an American type designer, historian, and professor. He grew up around Detroit and went to Cranbrook School. He earned a BA in anthropology from Reed College. With Kris Holmes, he co-created the Lucida and Wingdings font families and runs the Bigelow and Holmes studio. He taught digital typography at Stanford University from 1982 to 1995. He received a MacArthur Fellowship in 1982 and the Frederic W. Goudy Award in 1987, along with Sloan Science and Film screenwriting awards in 2001 and 2002. In 2006 he became the Melbert B. Cary Distinguished Professor at Rochester Institute of Technology. At RIT he helped organize the 2010 international symposium The Future of Reading and the 2012 Reading Digital symposium. He retired from teaching at RIT in 2012 and is now Cary Scholar in Residence at the Cary Graphic Arts Collection at the RIT Wallace Center.