Matthew Carter: My life in typefaces

Pick up a book, magazine or screen, and more than likely you’ll come across some typography designed by Matthew Carter. In this charming talk, the man behind typefaces such as Verdana, Georgia and Bell Centennial (designed just for phone books — remember them?), takes us on a spin through a career focused on the very last pixel of each letter of a font.

[via Gizmodo]

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Welcome to Bern and to Buro Destruct. Director Kai Sehr paid a visit to the Swiss design collective and documented how they stay true to their motto of over 15 years: “Small City. Big Design.” The project: development of a typeface from a pen.

Learn more about this project and, more importantly, get the typeface at type-for-type.com