Matthew Carter

The most im

portant typography designe

r of our time, MATTHEW CARTER

 (1937-) is one of the few design

ers whose work is used by millions of people every day. Having devoted the first h

alf of his career to

 typefaces for use in print, such as Miller and Bell Centennial, he then pioneered the de

sign of fonts for use on screen,

 notably Verdana for Microsoft.

One of this century´s foremost type designers and co-founders of Bitstream, (America´s first digital type foundry), Matthew Carter shares his insight and experience regarding 20th century typography in America, ATF, Morris Fuller Benton, Linotype, ITC, Swiss International type design, current typographic movements and more.
Today Carter is the principal of Carter & Cone Type in Cambridge, Massachusetts. One of this century's foremost type designers and co-founders of Bitstream, (America´s first digital type foundry), Matthew Carter shares his insight and experience regarding 20th century typography in America, ATF, Morris Fuller Benton, Linotype, ITC, Swiss International type design, current typographic movements and more. Today Carter is the principal of Carter & Cone Type in Cambridge, Massachusetts. One of this century´s foremost type designers and co-founders of Bitstream, (America's first digital type foundry).

Matthew Carter was born in London, England in 1937.

He was a major contributer in turning metal type into digital type

Being on of the cofounders of bitstream inc which is currently one of the largest suppliers of type. He eventually left and moved on to create carter and cone.

He works on making typefaces more readable.

He works for apple and microsoft computers.

his fonts for the computer include 

• Verdana
• Georgia

he has won awards such as 

• Honoris Causa Doctorate of Humane Letters
• Aiga medal
• 2005 SOTA typography award
• TDC Medal

He has designe

d type for 

• time
• the washington post
• the new york times
• the boston globe
• wired
• Newsweek

he is active in type design, teaching, writing, typography, punchcutting, and low resolution Type Design

Wikipedia

http://www.designmuseum.org/design/matthew-carter

http://www.myfonts.com/person/carter/matthew/

www.carterandcone.com

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Books i plan to check out

Margaret Rey, Typographically Speaking: The Art of Matthew Carter,  Albin O. Kun Library & Gallery, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, 2002

Ken Shulman, Matthew Carter: Man of Letters, Graphis 325, January/February 2000

J Abbott Miller, Matthew Carter: Gentleman Typographer, Graphic Design USA: 17

Moira Cullen, The space between the letters, Eye, Vol. 5, No. 19, Winter 1995

Erik Spiekermann, Reputations: Matthew Carter, Eye, Vol. 3, No. 1, 1993

Ulrich Boser, A Man of Letters, US News & World Report, Vol. 135, No.6, September 1 2003

Matthew Carter's typefaces include:

Bell Centennial[1] Big Caslon Big Figgins Cascade Script Charter Elephant Fenway ITC Galliard Gando Georgia[2] Mantinia Miller

Monticello Nina Olympian Rocky Shelley Script Snell Roundhand[1] Skia Sophia Tahoma Verdana[2] Vincent Wrigley Meiryo