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Thread ID: 11863	2001-10-08 07:13:00	Weird One. . who designed 'Wingdings' ??	Guest (0)	Press F1

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20542	2001-10-08 07:13:00	Daughter has been doing a school project on fonts, etc . and has become fascinated with several, especially 'Wingdings . ' Despite searching all over the place I don't seem to be able to locate the originator . Can someone help out with this . . . . you'll make me look incredably computer literate too !!!	Guest (0)
20543	2001-10-08 07:50:00	All opening it in the fonts folder gives is copyright Microsoft 1992-1995.	Guest (0)
20544	2001-10-08 08:12:00	Designed by Charles Bigelow, Kris Holmes Charles Bigelow: Contemporary American type historian, professor and designer, recipient of a MacArthur Grant in 1982. Professor of Digital Typography at Stanford for several years. With partner Kris Holmes he runs the Bigelow & Holmes studio. Their most significant work is probably the Lucida font family, perhaps the first serious attempt to make type look good on low-resolution output. Lucida?s accompanying pi font, Wingdings, has long been included with Windows. Underlings of Bigelow include Carol Twombly, David Siegel, and Tom Rickner. Kris Holmes: Contemporary American type designer and President of Bigelow & Holmes alongside Charles Bigelow. The pair co-designed the Lucida font family targeted at low-resolution, and the pi font Wingdings. Kris Holmes herself has had a hand in the design of over 90 typefaces, including the ?city? fonts (Chicago, New York, Geneva, Monaco) for Apple. Those names sound fake but perhaps they are for real!	Guest (0)
20545	2001-10-08 08:18:00	Designed By Bigelow & Holmes Inc. For Microsoft Corporation - there 'ya go! found that on my hunt :-)	Guest (0)
20546	2001-10-08 11:42:00	Who thought up the name and Why that name? Can anybody read it in its natural state in a paragraph?	Guest (0)
20547	2001-10-08 20:41:00	I know the name is a take-off from the Macintosh font 'dingbats', Apple thought of it first. Like everything else about Windows. Don't worry, I am a reformed Mac user. Regards, Rob C.	Guest (0)
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