Kris Holmes

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Kris Holmes
UCLA Film School
Known forGraphic design, Type design
Awards2012 Goudy Award

Kris Holmes (born 1950,

calligrapher, type design educator and animator. She, with Charles Bigelow, is the co-creator of the Lucida and Wingdings font families, among many other typeface designs. She is President of Bigelow & Holmes Inc., a typeface design studio.[1]

Biography

Early life

Holmes grew up on a farm in Parlier, California. The nearest hospital was in Reedley, so she was born there.[2] At

UCLA Film School in Animation.[7]

Teaching

Holmes has taught at the Rochester Institute of Technology in both the Graphic Design[8] and the Film Departments, Portland State University, the Museum Art School (Portland), Rhode Island School of Design, Santa Monica College, and the Otis College of Art and Design.[6]

Design

By far the most well-known typeface design created by Bigelow & Holmes is Lucida. Bigelow and Holmes have written extensively about its original conception and subsequent evolution.[9]

Notable projects include the design of

TeX Users Group.[11] Lucida is also available from Bigelow & Holmes' own web site.[12]

As the principal artist at Bigelow & Holmes, Holmes is responsible for the creation of over 100 digital typefaces, including conception, research, drawing, computer input, digital editing, and production management. Her illustrations have appeared in

Walter Lantz Studio, UCLA. Her work is included in the permanent collection of the Klingspor Museum, Germany and the Cary Graphic Arts Collection, Rochester Institute of Technology
.

Kris Holmes received the 2012 RIT Frederic W. Goudy Award for excellence in typography and gave the keynote address at the 2012 RIT Reading Digital Symposium. [13]

Film

Her screenplay, Vavilov,

Sloan Foundation Student Film Award. She is the creator of the animated film La Bloomba,[15] which was awarded a First Prize in the ChloroFilms 2009 contest.[16] She has created many other animated films.[17]

Designed fonts

Apple Chancery by Holmes, commissioned by Apple in 1993. Holmes had been taught calligraphy at Reed College, by the same tutors as Steve Jobs (though not at the same time). The font's goal was to include complex alternates to somewhat mimic the verve of Renaissance scribes.

Samples of many of these typefaces are available online.[18]

References

  1. ^ Millman, Debbie (April 13, 2019). "Kris Holmes". Design Matters. Retrieved March 4, 2020.
  2. ^ a b "Interview with Kris Holmes" (PDF). TeX Users Group. 25 June 2018.
  3. ^ "Lloyd Reynolds". Bigelow & Holmes. Retrieved 14 May 2017.
  4. ^ "Interview" (PDF). www.tug.org.
  5. ^ "Kris Holmes". Identifont. Dec 2009. Retrieved 7 Mar 2015.
  6. ^ a b "Kris Holmes". Identifont. Retrieved 2016-04-19.
  7. ISBN 9781621535829
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  8. ^ "Blogger". rittypefacedesign.blogspot.com.
  9. ^ "Bigelow & Holmes". typepad.
  10. ^ "Before emoji, there were Wingdings". Boing Boing. 2016-03-16. Retrieved 2016-04-19.
  11. ^ "Lucida fonts". TeX Users Group.
  12. ^ "Lucida Fonts Store". Bigelow & Holmes.
  13. ^ "Reading Digital Symposium".
  14. ^ "Vavilov". scienceandfilm.org. Sloan Science & Film.
  15. ^ "La Bloomba". Vimeo. Retrieved 2016-04-19.
  16. ^ "Chlorofilms!". Biology Fortified, Inc. 15 May 2009. Retrieved 2016-04-19.
  17. ^ "Kris Holmes". Vimeo.
  18. ^ "Kris Holmes". luc.devroye.org.

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