font_designer: Matthew Carter

HWT Van Lanen

HWT Van Lanen font

In 2002 Matthew Carter was commissioned to create a new design to be cut in wood by the then nascent Hamilton Wood Type Museum. This was significant in that this was the one format...

Verdana

Verdana font

The Verdana fonts were created specifically to address the challenges of on-screen display. Designed by world renowned type designer Matthew Carter, and hand-hinted by leading hinting expert, Tom Rickner, these sans serif fonts are...

Nina

Nina font

Nina is a new condensed sans serif typeface designed to be as readable as possible at small sizes, whilst squeezing in as many characters per inch as feasibly possible. This typeface was designed for...

Georgia Pro

Georgia Pro font

Originally designed in 1996 by Matthew Carter and hand-tuned for the screen by Tom Rickner. The Georgia typeface family received a major update in 2010 by Monotype, The Font Bureau and Matthew Carter. Georgia...

Tahoma

Tahoma font

Tahoma is one of Microsoft’s new sans serif typeface families. It consists of two Windows TrueType fonts (regular and bold), and was created to address the challenges of on-screen display, particularly at small sizes...

Georgia

Georgia font

Although inspired by the need for, and providing, clarity at low resolutions on the screen, Georgia is a typeface resonant with typographic personality. Even at small sizes the face exudes a sense of friendliness....

Olympian

Olympian font

Designed by Matthew Carter and intended for newspaper use. Contemporary newspaper columns are narrow and require typefaces that are efficient in their use of width. The old-style diagonal emphasis is used to obtain maximum...

Snell Roundhand

Snell Roundhand font

Late in the seventeenth century, the English writing master, Charles Snell, decried all flourishes in the Puritan tradition and stood for a plain and efficient form of roundhand. The large x-height of these unadorned...

Shelley Script

Shelley Script font

Matthew Carter’s revival of the hand of the early eighteenth century English writing master, George Shelley; the face is traditional, and is made in three degrees of flourish.