Arenberg Theater
Matthew Carter has given ten talks at ATy apI conferences, beginning in 1971. This year, he cranks it up to eleven by revisiting some of his previous topics, including, but not confined to: newspaper text types, experimental type design, type and technology, the origins of his Galliard and Walker type designs, Bruce Rogers’ Centaur type, legibility research, and so on. The opening night keynote will take place at the Arenberg Theater, and is sponsored by Type Network.
Matthew Carter is a type designer with 60 years’ experience in typographic technologies, ranging from hand-cut punches to computer fonts. After a long association with the Linotype companies, he cofounded Bitstream Inc. in 1981, a digital type foundry where he worked for ten years. Carter is now a principal of Carter & Cone Type Inc., designers and producers of original typefaces, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Carter’s type designs include ITC Galliard, Snell Roundhand and Shelley scripts, Helvetica Compressed, Olympian, Bell Centennial, ITC Charter, Mantinia, Sophia, Big Caslon, Big Moore, Miller, Roster, Georgia, Verdana, Tahoma, Sitka, and Carter Sans. Carter has attended 34 ATypIs, beginning in 1963.