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Matthew Carter |
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 Matthew Carter is a type designer with 50 years’ experience in typographic technologies ranging from hand-cut punches to computer fonts. After a long association with Linotype, in 1981 he co-founded digital type foundry Bitstream, where he worked for 10 years. He is now a principal of Carter & Cone Type Inc. His type designs include ITC Galliard, Snell Roundhand and Shelley scripts, Helvetica Compressed, Olympian (for newspaper text), Bell Centennial (for the US telephone directories), ITC Charter, and faces for Greek, Hebrew, Cyrillic and Devanagari. For Carter & Cone, he has designed Mantinia, Sophia, Elephant, Big Caslon, Alisal and Miller. Carter & Cone have produced types on commission for Time, Newsweek, Wired, U.S. News & World Report, Sports Illustrated, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The New York Times, BusinessWeek, Le Monde, The Walker Art Center, the MoMa, and Yale. Matthew worked with Microsoft on a series of screen fonts designed to maximize the legibility of type on computer monitors. Of these, Verdana, Tahoma and Nina (a condensed face for hand-held devices) are san serif types; Georgia is a seriffed design. Matthew is a Senior Critic on Yale’s Graphic Design faculty. He has received a Chrysler Award for Innovation in Design, the AIGA medal and the Type Directors Club medal. In 2004 he received the Special Commendation of the Prince Philip Designers Prize “for outstanding achievement in design for business and society.”
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