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.connare.com
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.
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VincentConnare (born September 26, 1960) is an American type designer and former Microsoft employee. Among his creations are the fonts Comic Sans and...
business suit levitating", a humanized exclamation point. According to VincentConnare, who designed the font, the character was intended as a nod to the...
most common name Comic Sans) is a sans-serif typeface designed by VincentConnare and released in 1994 by Microsoft Corporation. It is a non-connecting...
Connare is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: VincentConnare (born 1960), Microsoft employee and typographer William G. Connare (1911–1995)...
Trebuchet MS is a humanist sans-serif typeface that VincentConnare designed for Microsoft Corporation in 1996. Trebuchet MS was the font used for the...
Umpelova, Vladimir Yefimov designed by Christian Robertson designed by Paul D. Hunt designed by Frederic Cambus designed by Dalton Maag, VincentConnare...
the Virgin Galactic spaceflight programme. Magpie was designed by VincentConnare, who is known for designing Comic Sans. It was called Magpie because...
Neue Designer: Craig Rozynski, Hrant Papazian Comic Sans Designer: VincentConnare Consolas Designer: Luc(as) de Groot Class: Humanist Corbel Designer:...
Levitating icon for Webdings was VincentConnare, who also created Comic Sans and Trebuchet MS. According to Connare, the original Man in Business Suit...
for Windows XP's file-search function. Microsoft graphic designer VincentConnare designed the typeface Comic Sans when he noticed that Rover's speech...
a Webdings font designed by VincentConnare in 1997 ("Man in Business Suit Levitating emoji" in the Emoji system). Connare changed the design to face forward...
of the two comic books, alongside Watchmen, that inspired designer VincentConnare when he created the Comic Sans font. Writer: Frank Miller; Artist:...
Script Designer: Robert Slimbach Chalkboard Comic Sans MS Designer: VincentConnare Dom Casual Designer: Peter Dom Eyadish Freestyle Script Designer: Martin...
company's main typeface since its introduction. Its designers include VincentConnare, creator of the classic font Comic Sans. The typeface was developed...
lettering style that later served as one of two reference sources used by VincentConnare when creating the controversial font Comic Sans in 1994. Gibbons has...
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alongside Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, that inspired designer VincentConnare when he created the Comic Sans font. In 2009, Brain Scan Studios released...
Son; Michael McCrackan, Research and Development Director, Kodak; VincentConnare, font designer and former Microsoft employee, amongst his creations...
calling for Microsoft to change the name of the font to Comic Cerns. VincentConnare, the font's creator, tweeted support for the petition. Gianotti had...
to Superscript. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Subscript. VincentConnare's type-design standards for Microsoft Vertical alignment questions Archived...
Planning & Design and Chief Architect at Wildlife Conservation Society. VincentConnare, font designer and former Microsoft employee. Amongst his creations...
1939, Continental. Digital revivals by Castle Type, Rimmer and by VincentConnare for Microsoft. Truesdell + Italic (1930, Continental), first used for...
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