Matthew Carter

For other people named Matthew Carter, see Matthew Carter (disambiguation).

Matthew Carter
CBE RDI
Matthew Carter in 2018
Born (1937-10-01) 1 October 1937 (age 86)
London, England, United Kingdom
Known forType design
Awards2010 MacArthur Fellow

Matthew Carter CBE RDI (born 1 October 1937) is a British type designer.[1][2] A 2005 New Yorker profile described him as 'the most widely read man in the world' by considering the amount of text set in his commonly used typefaces.[3][4]

Carter's career began in the early 1960s and has bridged all three major technologies used in type design: physical type, phototypesetting and digital type design, as well as the design of custom lettering.

Carter's most used typefaces are the classic web typefaces Verdana and Georgia and the Windows interface typeface Tahoma, as well as other designs including Bell Centennial, Miller and Galliard.[5][6][7] He is the son of the English historian of printing Harry Carter (1901–1982) and cofounded Bitstream, one of the first major retailers of digital typefaces. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.[8]

  1. ^ A Man of Letters Archived 9 July 2007 at the Wayback Machine, U.S. News & World Report, 1 September 2003.
  2. ^ Johnston, Alastair (2011). "Matthew Carter". Hanging Quotes: Talking Book Arts, Typography & Poetry. Cuneiform Press. pp. 28–41. ISBN 9780982792667.
  3. ^ Wilkinson, Alex (27 November 2005). "Man of Letters". New Yorker. Retrieved 15 February 2016.
  4. ^ "The most-read man in the world". The Economist. Retrieved 22 February 2016.
  5. ^ "Matthew Carter – Designing Britain". Design Museum. Archived from the original on 27 February 2016. Retrieved 22 February 2016.
  6. ^ Rawsthorn, Alice (9 July 2006). "Quirky serifs aside, Georgia fonts win on Web". The New York Times. Retrieved 20 September 2015.
  7. ^ Berry, John. "dot-font: The Typographic Art of Matthew Carter". CreativePro. Archived from the original on 11 February 2006. Retrieved 22 February 2016.
  8. ^ Newsham, Jack. "Five things you should know about Matthew Carter". Boston Globe. Retrieved 22 April 2016.