Vincent Connare
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Vincent Connare in 2012
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| Born |
September 26, 1960 Boston, Massachusetts, United States |
| Nationality | British-American |
| Education | University of Reading, New York Institute of Technology, Milford High School (Massachusetts) |
| Occupation | Typeface designer, photographer |
| Known for | Comic Sans, Trebuchet MS, Webdings, Marlett, Microsoft |
| Website | http://www.connare.com/ |
Vincent Connare (born September 26, 1960 in Boston, Massachusetts) is a British-American typeface designer and former Microsoft employee. Amongst his creations are the Comic Sans font, and the Trebuchet MS font. 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.
Connare studied at Milford High School in Milford, Massachusetts and the New York Institute of Technology, and gained a master's degree in Type Design at the University of Reading.
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