Matthew Carter is one of the few type designers who have created typefaces for fonts in metal, photo and the digital medium. This is even more remarkable when considering that his career began slightly by happenstance.In the brief time between secondary school and Oxford University, the then 19-year-old Carter trained at Enschedé type foundry in the Netherlands. This internship enabled him to learn punchcutting from P.H. Rädish, a master of the craft. Carter’s Enschedé experience sealed his fate. By the time he returned to London in 1956, his self-imposed “life sentence in type” had begun.
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