Matthew Carter: My life in typefaces
Метью Картер: Моя життя серед шрифтів
Even if you don’t recognize his name, chances are you’ve seen Matthew Carter’s work -- his type designs include some of the world’s most familiar digital typefaces. Full bio
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mathematical smoothness
яку їй дарувала людська рука,
щоб її літера виглядала так.
Кінець історії.
наприклад, скульптури чи архітектури,
of the family be better?
виглядали б краще?
для телефонних довідників,
на газетному папері
them raster line by raster line
- кожен рядок пікселів растру -
of straight line segments,
як і шрифт без зарубок.
for serif fonts and so on."
of gets interesting for me.
technical problems went away.
що згодом отримали назву
than type design,
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Matthew Carter - Type designerEven if you don’t recognize his name, chances are you’ve seen Matthew Carter’s work -- his type designs include some of the world’s most familiar digital typefaces.
Why you should listen
MacArthur Fellow Matthew Carter started his career as a punchcutter, a print artisan who physically carves each letter into metal. He had already designed several legendary typefaces (in 1975, he created Bell Centennial for use in phone books) when he stepped into the digital design ring. As part of a project undertaken for Microsoft, Carter created early and successful examples of screen type emphasizing clarity and ease of long-term viewing, including the familiar Verdana, Galliard and Georgia. A recent work is MS Sitka, a family of digital fonts that are built to be readable at many sizes in print and onscreen.
Print and online publications such as Sports Illustrated, Newsweek, Wired and the Washington Post have all commissioned Carter fonts, leading Microsoft's typography blog to call him "the person who shapes the way we read about the world."
Carter is a principal of Carter & Cone Type Inc., a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based company specializing in designing and producing original typefaces. As he says: "A typeface is a beautiful collection of letters, not a collection of beautiful letters."
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