Fonts, Glyphs, Curves, Bits - Typefaces for Interfaces
April 8, 1992
Lessons learned from a decade of designing digital types for
computer displays and graphical user interfaces. The technical
problems of producing readable screen fonts encourage a re-examination
of some of the fundamental conceptions and perceptions of writing
and reading. Examples will be drawn from Sun OpenLook, Macintosh
System 7, Microsoft Windows, and other graphical user interfaces.
The special user-interface problems of computer-based font design
tools will also be touched upon.
Charles Bigelow and his studio partner Kris Holmes have designed
display system fonts for Sun OpenLook, Macintosh System 7, DEC
Windows, and other graphical user interfaces, as well as fonts
for a wide variety of printing technologies. He also is associate
professor of digital typography at Stanford.