Typographer Matthew Carter wins 2010 MacArthur Prize!

[rug]

along with 22 others.

http://www.macfound.org/site/c.lkLXJ8MQKrH/b.6239749/k.1427/Meet_the_2010_Fellows.htm

Way to go, Mr. Carter!

http://www.macfound.org/site/c.lkLXJ8MQKrH/b.6241247/k.898C/Matthew_Carter.htm

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1. I love Snell Roundhand

Grats, Mr Carter.

[rug]

2. Me too. I used to set headline type on a phototypositor.

Snell Roundhand is an elegant and clean script and the connecting strokes always lined up perfectly.

Nowadays, I use his Georgia as the default text font.

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3. Me too! Really!

Also: Compugraphic Compset
Linotype-Hell (aptly named)
VariTyper EPICS (wrote manual)
SUN (wrote manual)

[rug]

5. What! you used this too?

:fistbump:

[REP]

7. And fixed 'em with paperclips!

Only used the typositor in college - called it the Headliner, because that's what it was used for - and did the rest of the typesetting on an ancient CompSet. My degree waz in something else, but guess what I did after graduating? Yup. I won a Zapf once, too (I mention this only because you'd know what it is, not to brag about a meaningless award).

Do you find yourself marking up text when you're reading for fun? I was bitching about the (lack of) kerning in the WA in an ad for the new Wallstreet movie the other night...

DOUBLE Respek Knuckles to you!

[rug]

8. I find myself opening a book at the bookstore, tilting it, and looking for rivers.

I love type. Made my living at it for several years. And that apostrophe before the em needs a nice kern.

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9. Drives me nuts about HTML - very little type control

Yeah. I thought 'A River Runs Through It' was going to be a totally different movie...

I did it until desktop came along and people thought they could do it themselves. It's just one of the many industries I feel I helped kill by working in it (landlines is another).

[rug]

10. I suck at HTML. I tried to put the first line of the body in 6 point, but I couldn't.

:cry:

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11. It's like using an EPICS, only sucky

it's a lot of extra coding, instead of "pt6.5/ll22.5/l7" etc

[gmoney]

4. Looks like Carlos went skiing before picture day...

The reverse raccoon sunburn... sunglasses? Ski goggles? Too much time peering into microscopes?

[rug]

6. You're right. I hadn't seen that.