Miller (typeface)

Miller
CategorySerif
ClassificationScotch Roman
Designer(s)Matthew Carter
Cyrus Highsmith
Tobias Frere-Jones
Richard Lipton
FoundryFont Bureau
Carter & Cone
Date released1997 (Text/Display)
2002 (Daily/Headline)
2010 (Banner)
VariationsMiller Text (shown)
Miller Display
Miller Banner
Miller Headline
Miller Daily

Miller is a serif typeface, released in 1997 by the Font Bureau, a U.S.-based digital type foundry.[1] It was designed by Matthew Carter and is of the 'transitional' style from around 1800, based on the "Scotch Roman" type which originates from types sold by Scottish type foundries that later became popular in the United States.[2][3] It is named for William Miller, founder of the long-lasting Miller & Richard type foundry of Edinburgh.[2][4]

The general purpose versions of Miller are Miller Text and the Miller Display optical size for display printing, though since their release they have given rise to a number of variants, including Miller Daily, Miller Headline and Miller Banner, as well as some variants commissioned for use in specific publications. The Miller family is widely used, mostly in newspapers and magazines.

Miller is closely related to Carter's previous Scotch Roman revival, the very popular Georgia family for Microsoft.[5] Carter had been working on plans for what became Miller when contacted by Microsoft but put them temporarily on hold to work on Georgia, which is adapted to digital display.[6][7][8] Font Bureau in marketing have called Miller "the debonair cousin of Georgia".[9]

Miller was one of 23 typefaces included in MoMA's first acquisition of historically significant typefaces.

  1. ^ Mosley, James (2003). "Reviving the Classics: Matthew Carter and the Interpretation of Historical Models". In Re, Margaret (ed.). Typographically Speaking: The Art of Matthew Carter (2. ed.). New York: Princeton Architectural. pp. 31–6. ISBN 9781568984278.
  2. ^ a b Mosley, James. "Scotch Roman". Type Foundry (blog). Retrieved 3 September 2016.
  3. ^ Paul Shaw (April 2017). Revival Type: Digital Typefaces Inspired by the Past. Yale University Press. pp. 119–122. ISBN 978-0-300-21929-6.
  4. ^ Bill Bell (23 November 2007). Edinburgh History of the Book in Scotland, Volume 3: Ambition and Industry 1800-1880. Edinburgh University Press. pp. 26–31. ISBN 978-0-7486-2881-0.
  5. ^ Butterick, Matthew. "Miller". Archived from the original on March 18, 2015.
  6. ^ Connare, Vincent. "Comments on Typophile thread..." Typophile. Archived from the original on 2017-12-13. Retrieved 2017-11-18.
  7. ^ John L Walters (2 September 2013). Fifty Typefaces That Changed the World: Design Museum Fifty. Octopus. pp. 136–7. ISBN 978-1-84091-649-2.
  8. ^ Yan, Jack. "Set on the Web-part 2". Jack Yan & Associates. Retrieved 18 November 2017.
  9. ^ "New: Miller Text from Font Bureau". Font Bureau. Retrieved 18 November 2017.