Name: My life in typefaces
Uploaded: 2014-04-18T14:59:46Z
Duration: 15 min 48 s
Description: 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.

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.

My life in typefaces

Typography shapes nearly every page we read, yet its origins and choices are often invisible. From hand-carved letters to fonts optimized for blurry phone books and pixelated screens, design adapts to shifting technical limits. Even as tools and constraints evolve, it is the designer’s intent and imagination that shape the letters we see. Typefaces like Verdana and Georgia, created for early digital screens, have endured well beyond their original purpose.