Matthew Carter
Matthew Carter ( born October 1, 1937 in London ) is a British type designer.
Life
Matthew Carter was the son of Scripture historian and typographer Harry Carter, the main occupation was concerned at the Oxford University Press with the history of the art of printing. After admission to study at Oxford University in 1955, he took the time remaining until start of the study to an internship at the type foundry and printing Johannes Enschedé en Zonen in Haarlem, Netherlands. Here he also learned the tailoring stamp, so the manual creation of Metallpatrizen for creating font molds. He also studied at this time historical character style of the 16th century. 1956 decided to Matthew Carter, not to study, but to help his father in the construction of a museum on the Oxford University Press. He also worked as a freelance book and type designer.
In 1963, he worked as a typographic consultant for the British phototypesetting machine manufacturer Crosfield Electronics. In a collaboration with Deberny & Peignot in Paris, he met Adrian Frutiger. In 1965 he moved to the USA and worked for the next six years as a font developer at Mergenthaler Linotype Company, Brooklyn, New York City, and then as a freelance type designer for Linotype different companies in the U.S. and Europe.
Matthew Carter in 1981 was a co-founder of the company font Bitstream Inc., Cambridge (Massachusetts ) -. During the 1980s a well-known provider of high quality PostScript fonts - that he left together with Cherie Cone 1991 Together they operate since the Carter & Cone Type, Inc., also in Cambridge (Massachusetts ).
Offices and Awards
Exhibitions
- 2002 typographically Speaking: The Art of Matthew Carter exhibition, University of Maryland
- 2005 typographically Speaking: The Art of Matthew Carter exhibition, at the annual conference of ATypI in Helsinki
Work
Some of the designed by Matthew Carter fonts are:
Bell Centennial, Cascade Script, Bitstream Charter, ITC Galliard, Olympian, Mantinia, Miller, Shelley Script, Snell Roundhand, Skia and Sophia. For Microsoft, he designed the Georgia ( with the variants Georgia Ref and MS Reference Serif ) and Verdana ( with the variants Verdana Ref and MS Reference Sans Serif as well as the derived fonts Tahoma and Meiryo ).
He is one next to Hermann Zapf, Adrian Frutiger or Erik Spiekermann of the pioneers of computer font development.