Matthew Carter: My life in typefaces
מת'יו קרטר: החיים שלי בפונטים
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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שולחן עבודה, מסך, אינטרנט.
mathematical smoothness
כמו פסלים או ארכיטקטורה,
of the family be better?
האלה של המשפחה היו טובים יותר?
עם פונטים דיגיטליים,
של פונטים דיגיטליים.
them raster line by raster line
שורת ראסטר אחרי שורת ראסטר
דו המשמעות מצורות האלה
כמו שאתם יכולים לראות
פונטים עם קוים דיגיטליים,
שלכם בכל זמן נתון.
המעוצבים באלגנטיות של הסריף.
אתם יכולים לראות אותו מימין,
of straight line segments,
מקטעים של קווים ישרים,
for serif fonts and so on."
שדרושה לפונט סריפי וכו'."
"פתרנו את הבעיה בשבוע שעבר.
of gets interesting for me.
technical problems went away.
than type design,
שהטכנולוגיה מאפשרת,
הלא רלוונטיים עכשיו
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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