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Caslon egyptian
Caslon egyptian




caslon egyptian

After a long association with the Linotype companies he was a co-founder in 1981 of Bitstream Inc., the digital typefoundry, where he worked for ten years. This mixing of type styles, increasingly embellished with ornament, reached a chaotic peak by the end.

caslon egyptian

I nspired by the printed ephemera of the early to mid- 19 th century which is visually rich and freely mixes together a range of diverse styles.

caslon egyptian

Matthew Carter is a type designer with fifty years’ experience of typographic technologies ranging from hand-cut punches to computer fonts. An integrated type system with 103 fonts of Sans, Egyptian and Fatface. In 2010 he was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship, and in 2011 he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Smithsonian National Design Awards. He has received a Chrysler Award for Innovation in Design, the AIGA medal and the Type Directors Club medal. Of these, Verdana, Tahoma and Nina (a condensed face for hand-held devices) are sanserif types Georgia is a seriffed design.Ĭarter is a Royal Designer for Industry, and a Senior Critic on Yale’s Graphic Design faculty. Miko McGinty digitized the font and Cyrus Highsmith & Christian Schwartz completed it for Red Herring.

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Starting in the mid-’90s Carter has worked with Microsoft on a series of “screen fonts” designed to maximize the legibility of type on computer monitors. A revival and expansion of Caslon’s Two Lines English Egyptian. News & World Report, Sports Illustrated, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The New York Times, BusinessWeek, The Walker Art Center, the Museum of Modern Art, Yale University, and the Hamilton Wood Type Museum. For Carter & Cone he has designed Mantinia, Sophia, Elephant, Big Caslon, Alisal and Miller.Ĭarter & Cone have produced types on commission for Time, Newsweek, Wired, U.S. His type designs include ITC Galliard, Snell Roundhand and Shelley scripts, Helvetica Compressed, Olympian (for newspaper text), Bell Centennial (for the US telephone directories), ITC Charter, and faces for Greek, Hebrew, Cyrillic and Devanagari.






Caslon egyptian