You’ve Heard Of Verdana, But How About Its Designer?

Matthew Carter has been “the creator of Georgia, Verdana, Galliard and 70 other typeface families during his 53 years in the field, and the Design Museum in London hails him as ‘the most important typography designer of our time.'” He “classifies his job under industrial design because he is perfecting a product — the English alphabet — that must perform a specific task for many people.”