An Interview with Matthew Carter

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). [Ler mais...]

Matthew Carter

"The most important typography designer of our time, MATTHEW CARTER (1937-) is one of the few designers whose work is used by millions of people every day. Having devoted the first half of his career to typefaces for use in print, such as Miller and Bell Centennial, he then pioneered the design of fonts for use on screen, notably Verdana for Microsoft."

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Walker typeface, 1995
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http://www.graphic-design.com/Type/carter/index.html

http://www.yale.edu/printer/typeface/index.html

“Yale” is inspired by the late fifteenth-century Venetian typeface that first appeared in Pietro Bembo’s De Aetna, published by Aldus Manutius. A pristine copy of this book may be found in the collection of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale.(...)