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Son of Harry Carter, Royal Designer for Industry, contemporary British type designer and ultimate craftsman, trained as a punchcutter at Enschedé by Paul Rädisch, responsible for Crosfield’s typographic program in the early 1960s, Mergenthaler Linotype’s house designer 1965–1981.
Carter co-founded Bitstream with Mike Parker in 1981. In 1991 he left Bitstream to form Carter & Cone with Cherie Cone.
He has in recent years designed Verdana and Georgia for Microsoft; these fonts are tuned to be extremely legible even at very small sizes on the screen.
In 1997 he was awarded the TDC Medal, the award from the Type Directors Club presented to those “who have made significant contributions to the life, art, and craft of typography”.
In 2010, he won a MacArthur Fellowship based on his “exceptional creativity, as demonstrated through a track record of significant achievement, and manifest promise for important future advances”.
Personal details
- From: United Kingdom
- What he does: Type Design, Teaching, Writing, Typography, Punchcutting, Low Resolution Type Design
Related links
- An Interview with Matthew Carter, by Mark Solsburg
- Imprint: An Interview With Matthew Carter by Paul Shaw
- Linotype Library Designers: Matthew Carter
- MacArthur Fellow 2010: Matthew Carter
- MyFonts Distinguished Characters: May-June 2007
- Type Directors Club : Former Directors
- Yale University: Introducing the Yale typeface
- Font Bureau People: Matthew Carter
- Fonts.com: Matthew Carter
55 font families by Matthew Carter
Baskerville Greek
family of 3 fonts from Linotype
| available for Desktop, Web, App, Epub and Server
Georgia Pro
family of 20 fonts from Ascender Corp.
| available for Desktop, Web, App, Epub and Server
Snell Roundhand Script™
family of 3 fonts from Linotype
| available for Desktop, Web, App, Epub and Server
New Century Schoolbook
family of 10 fonts from Linotype
| available for Desktop, Web, App, Epub and Server
Verdana Pro
family of 20 fonts from Ascender Corp.
| available for Desktop, Web, App, Epub and Server
Engravers’ Oldstyle 205
family of 6 fonts from Bitstream
| available for Desktop, Web, App, Epub and Server
