Kris Holmes
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Kris Holmes
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| Born | 1950 Reedley, California |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Harvard University, UCLA Film School |
| Known for | Graphic design, Typeface Design |
| Awards | 2012 Goudy Award |
Kris Holmes (born 1950, Reedley, California) is a typeface designer, a calligrapher, type design educator and an animator. She, with Charles Bigelow, is the co-creator of the Lucida font family. She is President of Bigelow & Holmes Inc., a typeface design studio.
At Reed college in Portland, Oregon Holmes studied calligraphy with Calligrapher Laureate of Oregon Lloyd J. Reynolds and modern dance with Judy Massee. In New York, she then continued her education by studying calligraphy and type design with Hermann Zapf and typeface design with Ed Benguiat as well as modern dance at the Martha Graham and Alwin Nikolais schools. She received her B.A. from Harvard University and her MFA from UCLA Film School in Animation.
She has taught at the Rochester Institute of Technology in both the Graphic Design and the Film Departments, Portland State University, the The Museum Art School (Portland), Rhode Island School of Design, Santa Monica College, and the Otis College of Art and Design.
Recent projects include the design of Lucida Grande, the system font for Apple Computer's OS X Operating System and the creation of the core fonts of the Java 2 language and developer kit for Sun Microsystems. These multilingual fonts cover five scripts, including Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Hebrew and Arabic, and twelve styles, comprising 10,000 characters in all. Other computer platform clients include the Microsoft Corporation, Sun Microsystems’ Solaris division, and Lucent Technologies. Font designs include: Microsoft Wingdings (Windows 95 and 98),Lucida Console (Windows NT), TrueType Chicago, Monaco, Geneva, New York, Apple Chancery, Textile, Capitals (Macintosh OS), Lucida Unicode (Java, Solaris, and Lucent Inferno). Font designs additionally licensed by Adobe Systems, Agfa Corporation, ITC, Hewlett Packard, Linotype Library, and Monotype Typography.
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