Kris Holmes – born 19. 7. 1950 in Reedly, California, USA – type designer.
1968–71: studies at Reed College in Portland, Oregon (courses include calligraphy under Lloyd Reynolds and Robert Paladino). 1975: studies at the Martha Graham School and the Alwin Nikolai School in New York (modern dance). 1976: studies at the School of Visual Arts in New York (including lettering with Ephram E. Benguiat). 1979: studies at the Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, New York (courses include
[...]Charles Bigelow (born 1945 in Detroit) created the font families Lucida® Math (with Kris Holmes, 1993), Lucida® Sans (with Kris Holmes, 1985), Lucida® Typewriter Sans (with Kris Holmes, 1985) and Lucida® Serif (with Kris Holmes, 1993).
Lucida® is a family of fonts with one basic design, but offered in more variations than normally available for one font. It has both serif and sans serif characters, as well as weights designed specifically for a particular purpose. One weight will print out clearly even on fax machines, another offers the possibility to present a text with black letter characters. The different weights are extremely versatile and can generally be combined with one another. Lucida® is suitable for books/text,
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Font Designer: Kris Holmes and Charles Bigelow, 1985
Lucida® is a family of fonts with one basic design, but offered in more variations than normally available for one font. It has both serif and sans serif characters, as well as weights designed specifically for a particular purpose. One weight will print out clearly even on fax machines, another offers the possibility to present a text with black letter characters. The different weights are extremely versatile and can generally be
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Font Designer: Kris Holmes & Charles Bigelow, 1985
Lucida® is a family of fonts with one basic design, but offered in more variations than normally available for one font. It has both serif and sans serif characters, as well as weights designed specifically for a particular purpose. One weight will print out clearly even on fax machines, another offers the possibility to present a text with black letter characters. The different weights are extremely versatile and can generally be
[...]Initial concepts for comprehensive type systems surfaced as early as the 1930s, yet they remained the exception. In the days of hot-metal typesetting, handbooks generally recommended creating typeface mixtures from a single type family, a family being understood as including all of a typeface’s weights, such as light, normal, semi-bold, and bold, and including all of the italic weights as well. A well-rounded type family also includes small caps, tabular and old-style figures. These days, the
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