Matthew Carter (born 1937) is a designer of digital fonts. 1937 (MCMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... A type designer is someone who designs typefaces. ... In typography, a typeface consists of a co-ordinated set of grapheme (i. ...

Previously with Linotype, he co-founded the Bitstream type foundry in 1981, which he left in 1991 to form the Carter & Cone type foundry with Cherie Cone. He is the son of Harry Carter (1901–1982), who was also a type designer. Linotype typesetting machine Originally an American company, formed in 1886 to market the linecaster invented by Ottmar Mergenthaler, Mergenthaler Linotype (pronounced LINEotype ) became the worlds leading manufacturer of book and newspaper typesetting equipment. ... Bitstream Inc. ... A type foundry is a company that produces and/or distributes typefaces. ... 1981 (MCMLXXXI) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1991 (MCMXCI) is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1901 (MCMI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... 1982 (MCMLXXXII) is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Matthew Carter's typefaces include: Bell Centennial, Cascade Script, Bitstream Charter, ITC Galliard, Georgia, Olympian, Mantinia, Miller, Shelley Script, Snell Roundhand, Skia, Sophia, Tahoma, Verdana and Meiryo. Bell is a family of typefaces designed for the Bell Telephone Company for use in telephone directories. ... Skia is a font designed by Matthew Carter for Apple Computer in 1993. ... Tahoma is a sans-serif typeface designed by Matthew Carter for the Microsoft Corporation in 1999. ... Verdana is a sans-serif typeface designed by Matthew Carter for Microsoft Corporation, with hand-hinting done by Agfa Monotype’s Tom Rickner. ... Meiryo (メイリオ) is a Japanese typeface part of the new suite of fonts that come with Microsoft Windows Vista. ...

Revivals on which Carter has worked include: Auriol, Big Caslon, New Century Schoolbook, ITC Souvenir, Cochin, Gando and Helvetica. Helvetica is a typeface developed by Max Miedinger in 1957 for the Haas’sche Schriftgiesserei type foundry of Switzerland. ...

External links

• MyFonts
• Georgia & Verdana - Typefaces for the screen