Knowing the differences between bad, good, and great typography is truly an artform within itself.

If you know your typography, this man is an absolute legend.

@finleycastello6512

7 жыл бұрын

zwete IKR

@DAVIEYKE

3 жыл бұрын

I don't but the design gods sent me here, excited!

These people are not worthy. They have no idea how much this man shaped their world.

Verdana is a masterpiece. A timeless classic.

How fortunate we are to live in a time with Sir Matthew Carter, and how fortunate society is to have his work. A brilliant man, a brilliant speech. Thank you, TED.

Beautiful stylish old man that made beautiful stylish typefaces. I enjoied his speech and his modest humor. Thanks for the talk.

Listening to this talk by Matthew Carter, a name formerly unknown to me, is a treasure to me! What a charming, interesting and intelligent person! Thank you so very much for allowing me the chance to become acquainted with him! Your video is a door leading me, into this design world. I only just saw the most exquisite Japanese style English typeface on the front of a magazine and was struggling with what or how to keep it...or Even if I should keep it. After listening to this talk, it has clarified why I did and should have fallen so in love with what I now see is really art.

I've enjoyed few TED talks as much as this one

Wow, he also made Tahoma. I love this guy! :)

@rayzhong8542

6 жыл бұрын

Faygris Tahoma looks very similar to Verdana condensed

This audience should be 100 times more interested. I wish I could’ve been there

My FAVOURITE TED talk so far

Calligraphy is one of the fascinating subjects to study and observe. Undoubtedly he is a great designer who invented some of the monumental fonts. The audio quality is not up to the mark, otherwise, it's an excellent talk.

@srimansrini

10 жыл бұрын

It seems you looks like a fool. Don't try to utter your idiotic comments. It shows your limited knowledge and ignorance.

@srimansrini

10 жыл бұрын

You rascal...haven't your homework properly. our IP has been noted and if you keep on creating trouble it will be sent to cyber crime police.

@srimansrini

10 жыл бұрын

haven't done your homework properly....

@jspr2k5

10 жыл бұрын

***** hahah nice one +1

@edwnx0

10 жыл бұрын

This is typography, not calligraphy.

Designing a typeface requires enormous amounts of talent and rigor. Designing a useful typeface is many times more difficult. And designing multiple, useful typefaces is super-human.

Absolutely fascinating! I could've listened to him all day.

Verdana is my favorite typeface ever! is so beatiful!

As a font freak myself, I am so excited and anxious, I can't even watch this video in one sitting.

What a scholar! Fascinating

It's sad that the audience doesn't appreciate typography, or they would've been much livelier.

@rayzhong8542

6 жыл бұрын

Lorenzo Ong but exactly how lively could they get. Do you think they should cheer when he shows another slide?

@qp2036

4 жыл бұрын

Well Matthew is not the best speaker.. quite hard even if your interested to get filled with energy.

@est189

4 жыл бұрын

Perfect example is minute 6:54 that couple might as well be home watching Netflix...good grief have some respect.

@est189

4 жыл бұрын

Ray Zhong maybe the couple on minute 6:54 could just sit up....just maybe....

@MartinJohnZ

4 жыл бұрын

Appreciating the pros and cons of typography is not exactly something mainstream audiences get really excited about.

He forgot to mention that only 2 years ago god damn Ikea switched to Verdana for all their marketing material across the globe.

@varnaksingh6910

4 жыл бұрын

reddit as well.

@jaiskreno

3 жыл бұрын

@@varnaksingh6910 Verdana is the ugliest font quite ever made

@varnaksingh6910

3 жыл бұрын

@@jaiskreno Not the ugliest

Really pleasing

I'm watching this for a web course and not particularly interested, but I'm glad to see that so many people are.

A genius. A star. An artist!

@People_Hero

10 жыл бұрын

Very good !

@MarkNiceyard

10 жыл бұрын

Didn't you listen? It's not art. ;)

@People_Hero

10 жыл бұрын

I means your words are good.

You are a legend!

Oh! His handwriting must be awesome!!

Wait, this guy made Verdana? what a legend!

We've still got phonebooks in Australia. with that exact font. so something of his has lived on longer than 18 years

This TED talk was hilarious, and nobody in his audience was laughing at any of his jokes. Very interesting talk, though.

Marvelous

While some may think this presenter is boring, due to his dry and dull approach, but there are some things to be learned from him. Firstly, we can learn how to use limitation (technical or otherwhise) to catalyze our creative minds to find solutions to problems. Secondly, it shows that in design (and possibly in other areas of life), old ideas applied in new ways are still valuble.

I could see how this would bore the fucking hell out of someone like my GF, but for me... I wish this video was an hour longer... =]

I have always wanted to make my own typeface. One day.

@JohnKnorr

10 жыл бұрын

Several years ago i downloaded a program that let you scan your handwritten characters from a grid and made them into a font. My handwriting sucks, so it was a terribly useless font, but it was still kinda cool.

@depletable

10 жыл бұрын

John Knorr That sounds cool. I would draw my font, and see how it would translate. Wouldn't use my handwriting tho'. lol

@aryalede6443

2 жыл бұрын

Did you?

Oh I cannot stand the "Te" spacing problem he mentioned.

I love Everest Pro font

I started using Verdana after Portal came out because I fell in love with Aperture Laboratories' logo.

@ScottMarshallArt

8 жыл бұрын

their logo is set in univers, not verdana

how the heck did he make tahoma its rly good tho

Verdana bagus banget paman, saya suka typeface tersebut.

I looked hard for the right type face where distinguishing o from 0 and I fron l and 1 and i was easy. The only two fonts that met that reauirement were Consolas and Georgia. We know Consolas cant be used as a formal font and its an absolute necessasity for programmers. But Georgia- well thats a whole different story. I use Georgia - for everything I do. No ‘Sans serif’ fonts for me.

so i am not complaining

Pixel fonts will always be used, at least for pixel art and small small screens

@quaglemy

10 жыл бұрын

Plus it's awesome!

A nice subject, but the presentation was a bit dull. Still, I was interested enough to see the all thing.

@matbroomfield

10 жыл бұрын

I agree - even the bit where he compared the two letter "a'" was poorly prepared.

Me before finding out this guy made Georgia: This TED talk is kinda boring After: NAME ANOTHER LEGEEEEEEND

Matthew Carter: My life in typefaces #Design #typeface

What makes you a type designer? 2:02 Before Matthew revealed the truth you already spotted that, or at least started to be suspicious.

lol, no one got the "he's not TED" joke

gone are the days of the brit!

i know, it's important, what he says. i know how important he is himself to our world, but i fell asleep anyways.

Minha vida em Cristo

Veranda is my favorite typeface

The audience looks bored.

@555kaktus

3 жыл бұрын

They were bored.

04:00

As anything but a connoisseur of fonts I reckon there are two types of fonts - easy to read and hard to read. That is all I require to know.

This talk encapsulated the D in TED but the audience seemed bored to death

I love the subject (as a wannabe graphic designer), but the talk could have been more exciting.

hi

@jynxie4686

2 жыл бұрын

Hello

He's not a great speaker but he had certainly opened up a whole lot of insights into typefaces.

Man in center 15:11 :/

Wait, so...Did we just find the guy responsible for Comic Sans??

@MarkNiceyard

10 жыл бұрын

That was Vincent Connare

@keylupveintisiete7552

6 жыл бұрын

Why? It isn't a bad typeface, it's just used on the wrong context too often.

Wait, he worked on /Verdana/? Hahaha, wow.

GGF

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Wow, I was so bored watching this talk, and fully expected people to complain about it but NOPE, apparently lots of people like this stuff o_o The more you know.

@Thegoodlol

10 жыл бұрын

I expected to be bored with this video, but actually it was enjoyable. After all, if you use a computer or read books on a daily basis you're always looking at fonts.

@RaghavKukreti7

10 жыл бұрын

Why would you even come here if you did not like the concept of type?

@briieme

8 жыл бұрын

+Peca Bokem I took a history of graphic design class and it was actually a class on history of typography in disguise. One of the most boring classes I ever took.This was more interesting. But I agree with you, type if generally not interesting to me.

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Pretty boring stuff, unfortunately. M. Carter discussed the same topics and fonts 20 years ago.

His body language bothers me for some reason.

It bothers me when a presenter doesn't make the effort to memorize their talk. He even had a hard time reading parts of it, like he wrote it on the plane to TED. Plus he comes across as a bit pompous. Why didn't he just tell the engineers he was going to try to "solve" the big problem before he started, instead of wasting all that time making a very forgettable font?

This talk is extraordinarily boring.