On Stage Design Indaba 2013: Matthew Carter

At Design Indaba Conference 2013 Matthew Carter gave the backstories to some of the unusual typefaces he has designed.

Carter first spoke about his Mantinia project. One of the inspirations behind the typeface is lettering in paintings and engravings of Renaissance artist Andrea Mantegna. The typeface saw a manipulation of Roman alphabet letters in order to join them together and merge two letters into one. “The typeface is unusual. It includes ligatures that are not part of our typographic tradition but rather of the epigraphic tradition derived from inscriptions,” says Carter.

Matthew Carter is a type designer with some 50 years' experience, having designed some of the world's most recognised fonts.