Vincent Connare | |
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 Connare in 2012 | |
| Born | September 26, 1960 Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Education | University of Reading, New York Institute of Technology, Milford High School (Massachusetts) |
| Occupation(s) | Typeface designer, photographer |
| Known for | Comic Sans, Trebuchet MS, Webdings, Marlett, Microsoft |
| Website | www |
Vincent Connare (born September 26, 1960)[1][2] is an American type designer and former Microsoft employee. Among his creations are the fonts Comic Sans and Trebuchet MS, as well as the Man in Business Suit Levitating emoji. 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.
- ^ Macmillan, Neil (2006). An A-Z of type designers. Yale University Press. ISBN 0300111517. Retrieved October 21, 2010.
{{cite book}}:|work=ignored (help) - ^ "Vincent Connare". MyFonts. Bitstream. Retrieved October 21, 2010.