Typographically Speaking: The Art of Matthew Carter

by Margaret Re, Johanna Drucker, Johanna Drucker and James Mosley

In a career that has spanned more than forty years, Matthew Carter has designed many of the typefaces that we see every day in and on publications, books, signs, and screens. Carter's celebrated typefaces include such stalwarts as Galliard, Mantinia, and Verdana. In 1975, he created the now-pervasive Bell Centennial specifically for use in phone books. Publications including Sports Illustrated , the Daily News , Wired , and the Washington Post , along...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1568984278
• ISBN13: 9781568984278
• Release Date: September 2003
• Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 9.0" x 13.0"
• Age Range: 13 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 8 to Postsecondary