Kris Holmes is a type designer. She is with Charles Bigelow

Charles Bigelow (type designer)

Charles A. Bigelow is a type historian, professor, and designer. Bigelow grew up in the Detroit suburbs and attended the Cranbrook School in Bloomfield Hills. He received a MacArthur Fellowship in 1982. Along with Kris Holmes, he is the co-creator of Lucida and Wingdings font families...

 the co-creator of the Lucida

Lucida

Lucida is an extended family of related typefaces designed by Charles Bigelow and Kris Holmes in 1985.There are many variants called Lucida, including scripts , serif , and sans-serif .Bigelow & Holmes, together with the TeX vendor Y&Y, extended the Lucida family with a full...

 font family.

She received her B.A. from Harvard University

Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...

 and her MFA from UCLA Film School in Animation. She has taught at the Rochester Institute of Technology

Rochester Institute of Technology

The Rochester Institute of Technology is a private university, located within the town of Henrietta in metropolitan Rochester, New York, United States...

, Portland State University

Portland State University

Portland State University is a public state urban university located in downtown Portland, Oregon, United States. Founded in 1946, it has the largest overall enrollment of any university in the state of Oregon, including undergraduate and graduate students. It is also the only public university in...

, the The Museum Art School (Portland)

Pacific Northwest College of Art

The Pacific Northwest College of Art is a private fine art and design college in Portland in the U.S. state of Oregon. Established in 1910, the art school grants bachelor of fine arts degrees and master of fine arts degrees and has an enrollment of about 550 students...

, Rhode Island School of Design

Rhode Island School of Design

Rhode Island School of Design is a fine arts and design college located in Providence, Rhode Island. It was founded in 1877. Located at the base of College Hill, the RISD campus is contiguous with the Brown University campus. The two institutions share social, academic, and community resources and...

, Santa Monica College

Santa Monica College

Santa Monica College is a two-year, public, junior college located in Santa Monica, California.Santa Monica College was first opened in 1929 as Santa Monica Junior College. Current enrollment is over 30,000 students in more than 90 fields of study...

, and the Otis College of Art and Design

Otis College of Art and Design

Otis College of Art and Design is an art and design college in Los Angeles, California.The school's programs, accredited by WASC and National Association of Schools of Art and Design, include four-year BFA degrees in illustration, fine arts, graphic design, architecture, landscape design, interior...

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Recent projects include the design of Lucida Grande

Lucida Grande

Lucida Grande is a humanist sans-serif typeface. It is a member of the Lucida family of typefaces designed by Charles Bigelow and Kris Holmes. It has been used throughout Mac OS X user interface since 1999, as well as in Safari for Windows up to the browser's version 3.2.3 released on May 12,...

, the system font for Apple Computer’s OSX Operating System and the creation of the core fonts of the Java 2 language and developer kit for Sun Microsystems. These multi-lingual 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. As the principal artist at Bigelow & Holmes, responsible for the creation of over 100 digital typefaces, including conception, research, drawing, computer input, digital editing, and production management. Illustrations have appeared in Scientific American, The Seybold Report, Computer Graphics, Fine Print and other publications. Signage design for Ghirardelli Square, San Francisco and Walter Lantz Studio, UCLA. Work included in the permanent collection of the Klingspor Museum, Germany and the Melville B. Carey Library.

Her screenplay, Vavilov, won a 2002 UCLA Sloan Foundation Student Film Award. She is the creator of the animated film La Bloomba, which was awarded a First Prize in the ChloroFilms

ChloroFilms

Started in 2008, was organized as an international competition to promote the creation and use of attention-getting videos about the life and inner workings of plants and their unique abilities. The short videos are hosted on YouTube and assessed by a panel of judges from around the world...

2009 contest.

She is President of Bigelow & Holmes Inc., a typeface design studio.

Designed fonts

• Lucida Grande
• Lucida Sans
• Lucida Console
• Lucida Bright
• Lucida Handwriting
• Lucida Calligraphy
• Lucida Casual
• Apple New York
• Apple Monaco
• Apple Geneva
• Apple Chancery
• Apple Textile
• Kolibri
• Leviathan
• Isadora

External links

• Short biography (Ascender Corporation)
• Short biography (Linotype GmbH)
• Short biography (Type Designer Club)
• Short biography (15th Internationalization & Unicode Conference)
• Typophile: Kris Holmes
• Sloan Student Film Awards (Museum of the Moving Image)
• La Bloomba, a film by Kris Holmes
• ChloroFilms 2009 contest