Matthew Carter – born 1. 10. 1937 in London, England – type designer.
1956: trains as a punch cutter in the Netherlands. 1963–65: typography consultant for Crossfield Electronics. 1965: moves to the USA and works for Mergenthaler-Linotype in New York. 1971: moves back to England where he continues to work for Linotype. 1980–84: typography consultant to Her Majesty’s Stationery Office. 1981: the Royal Society of Arts make him a Royal Designer for Industry. 1981: he and Mike Parker set up Bitstream Inc. in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the first independent American company to manufacture digital type. 1992: founds Carter & Cone Type Inc. with Cherie Cone, where the alphabets Mantinia, Elephant, Sophia and a new version of Galliard® are produced. 1995: corporate identity for the Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis, where serifs can be added to or removed from the base type using a computer program.
Fonts:
Alisal™,
Snell Roundhand™ (1966),
Cascade Script™ (1966), Gando Ronde (with H. J. Hunziker, 1966),
Olympian™ (1970), Auriga (1970),
Shelley Script™ (1972), CRT Gothic (1974), Video (1977),
Bell Centennial (1978),
Galliard® (1978),
New Baskerville® (with John Quaranda, 1978), V&A Titling (1981), Bitstream Charter (1987),
Charter™ (1993), as well as various Greek, Korean, Hebrew and Indian (Devanagari) typefaces.
* TYPOGRAPHY – An Encyclopedic Survey of Type Design and Techniques Throughout History by Friedrich Friedl, Nicolaus Ott (Editor), Bernard Stein, published by Könemann Verlagsgesellschaft mbH.
