Matthew Carter of United Kingdom

Born: 1937

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”.

Fonts by Matthew Carter

Alisal, Auriol, Bell Centennial, Cascade Script, Big Caslon, New Century Schoolbook, Charter BT, Cochin, ITC Galliard, Gando, Georgia, Helvetica, Mantinia, Miller, Monticello, Nina, Olympian, Shelley Script, Skia, Snell Roundhand Script, Sophia, Tahoma, Verdana

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Activities

  Type Design
  Teaching
  Writing
  Typography
  Punchcutting
  Low Resolution Type Design

Related Links

 • An Interview with Matthew Carter, by Mark Solsburg
 • Linotype Library Designers: Matthew Carter
 • MyFonts Distinguished Characters: May-June 2007
 • Type Directors Club : Former Directors : Allan Haley
 • Yale University: Introducing the Yale typeface
 • Font Bureau People: Matthew Carter
 • Fonts.com: Matthew Carter

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