Matthew Carter has been described as 'The most important typography designer of our time' which I think is a big title to live up to so I decided to look into what gave him this title. Matthew Carter's work is used by millions of people around the world every day as has spent half his career working with typefaces for use in print which include Miller and Bell Centennial. He has also pioneered design of fonts for use on screen such as Verdana for Microsoft.
Matthew Carter started his long career in type after finishing school, inspired by his father who was a typographer he started working in what was meant to be a temporary job at the Enschedé type foundry at Haarlem in the Netherlands where he learnt how to make type by hand by carving into steel. Carter decided to stay working with type and now he is one of the most successful typographers of our time.
Through the next years Matthew Carter worked hard to go from a type - marker to a type designer he then went to London where at the time no contemporary sans serif type was yet available. Matthew worked with famous typography names including Alan Fletcher, Colin Forbes, Bob Gill, Derek Birdsall and David Collins to produce several sans serif faces, including one for the a terminal at Heathrow Airport.
Matthew went on to design the font Bell Centennial, the typeface commissioned in 1974 by the telecommunications company AT&T, with an outstandingly exacting technical brief, for its telephone directories and which is still in use now.
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