Letterpress IV
Tworno
No reason to get excited
Letterpress III
“ I don’t think you get into something like type design if you have the kind of ego that needs to recognize your work everywhere or have other people recognize it everywhere.
It is still largely an anonymous business. Thanks to personal computers more people now know what a font is than they did in the past. You can have a perfectly intelligent conversation about fonts with a nine year old nowadays and so on.
But they still don’t necessarily know that there’s any human agency involved in designing and making fonts. They assume they sort of materialize out of the software ether in some way.
Type designers produce raw material. It goes out there into the world. We are hostages to whoever uses it.
It is still largely an anonymous business. Thanks to personal computers more people now know what a font is than they did in the past. You can have a perfectly intelligent conversation about fonts with a nine year old nowadays and so on.
But they still don’t necessarily know that there’s any human agency involved in designing and making fonts. They assume they sort of materialize out of the software ether in some way.
Type designers produce raw material. It goes out there into the world. We are hostages to whoever uses it.
Matthew Carter
To The Best Of Our Knowledge at Wisconsin Public Radio
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