2. Matthew Carter
Born 1937
Matthew Carter had much experience with metal type, phototype, and digital type. He has excelled in designing an array of typefaces in the various technologies; his classical, experimental, functional, and decorative typefaces and type families have influences designers around the world for over 40 years.
Carter freelanced for six years in London as a typemaker and a type designer. In 1965 he moved to New York as house designer for Mergenthaler Linotype, where he spent the next six years. Back in London in 1971, Carter continued freelancing for Linotype, producing several typefaces, uncluding the technologically creative Bell Centennial.
Carter with a few other men later established Bitstream, a digital type foundry in 1981 in Cambridge, MA. They enjoyed great success in the 1980's but with the growing company, Carter had very little time to design.
In 1991, Carter co-founded the Carter & Cone Type, Inc., where he has designed some of his most lauded typefaces, including Verdana.
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