My Favorite Genius: A Typographer
My favorite recipient of the MacArthur “genius” grants just announced is not David Simon, creator of “The Wire” or even David Cromer, theatre director extraordinaire, but Matthew Carter (pictured), a type designer. Carter was praised for “crafting letterforms of unequaled elegance…that spant the migration of text from the printed page to computer screens.” And yet his company doesn’t even have a functioning website yet. With the $500,000 MacArthur cash prize, maybe they will now.
