Steve Matteson
Encyclopedia
Steven R. Matteson is an American typeface
designer whose work is included in several computer operating systems and embedded in game consoles, cell phones and other electronic devices. He is the designer of the Microsoft Windows Vista
system font family Segoe
; of the Droid
font collection used in the Android mobile device platform, and designed the brand and user-interface fonts used in both the original Microsoft Xbox
and the Xbox 360
.
where he studied typography
, design
and printing. Upon graduation he spent two years learning font hinting
technology while employed at laser-printer manufacturer QMS.
In 1990 Matteson began work at Monotype Corporation
(later Agfa-Monotype) contributing to the creation of the Windows 3.1x
core TrueType
fonts: Arial
, Times New Roman and Courier New.
Matteson produced fonts for the Agfa-Monotype library (such as Goudy Ornate and Gill Floriated Capitals) and directed custom-font design for companies including Agilent Technologies
, Symantec
and Microsoft
. Matteson’s mono-spaced font design Andale Mono
is bundled with Mac OS X
and was one of the original Core fonts for the Web
.
Matteson directed custom type development for Agfa-Monotype until 2003. In 2004 he became a founding partner and Director of Type Design at Ascender Corporation
in Elk Grove Village, Illinois.
In 2005 Matteson designed the font family Convection for use in the branding and user-interface of Microsoft’s Xbox 360
game console. Matteson also designed the user-interface font used in Microsoft’s Zune
music player. In 2007 software maker Red Hat
released the open-source Liberation fonts
family designed by Matteson. Also in 2007, Matteson designed the Droid
family of fonts included in the Android mobile-phone platform supported by the Open Handset Alliance
.
Typeface
In typography, a typeface is the artistic representation or interpretation of characters; it is the way the type looks. Each type is designed and there are thousands of different typefaces in existence, with new ones being developed constantly....
designer whose work is included in several computer operating systems and embedded in game consoles, cell phones and other electronic devices. He is the designer of the Microsoft Windows Vista
Windows Vista
Windows Vista is an operating system released in several variations developed by Microsoft for use on personal computers, including home and business desktops, laptops, tablet PCs, and media center PCs...
system font family Segoe
Segoe UI
Segoe is a Humanist typeface family that is best known for its usage by Microsoft. The company uses Segoe in their online and printed marketing materials, including recent logos for a number of products...
; of the Droid
Droid (font)
Droid is a font family created by Ascender Corporation for use by the Open Handset Alliance platform Android and licensed under the Apache License. The fonts are intended for use on the small screens of mobile handsets and were designed by Steve Matteson of Ascender Corporation...
font collection used in the Android mobile device platform, and designed the brand and user-interface fonts used in both the original Microsoft Xbox
Xbox
The Xbox is a sixth-generation video game console manufactured by Microsoft. It was released on November 15, 2001 in North America, February 22, 2002 in Japan, and March 14, 2002 in Australia and Europe and is the predecessor to the Xbox 360. It was Microsoft's first foray into the gaming console...
and the Xbox 360
Xbox 360
The Xbox 360 is the second video game console produced by Microsoft and the successor to the Xbox. The Xbox 360 competes with Sony's PlayStation 3 and Nintendo's Wii as part of the seventh generation of video game consoles...
.
Biography
Matteson is a 1988 graduate of the Rochester Institute of TechnologyRochester Institute of Technology
The Rochester Institute of Technology is a private university, located within the town of Henrietta in metropolitan Rochester, New York, United States...
where he studied typography
Typography
Typography is the art and technique of arranging type in order to make language visible. The arrangement of type involves the selection of typefaces, point size, line length, leading , adjusting the spaces between groups of letters and adjusting the space between pairs of letters...
, design
Design
Design as a noun informally refers to a plan or convention for the construction of an object or a system while “to design” refers to making this plan...
and printing. Upon graduation he spent two years learning font hinting
Font hinting
Font hinting is the use of mathematical instructions to adjust the display of an outline font so that it lines up with a rasterized grid. At low screen resolutions, hinting is critical for producing a clear, legible text...
technology while employed at laser-printer manufacturer QMS.
In 1990 Matteson began work at Monotype Corporation
Monotype Corporation
Monotype Imaging Holdings is a Delaware corporation based in Woburn, Massachusetts and specializing in typesetting and typeface design as well as text and imaging solutions for use with consumer electronics devices. Monotype Imaging Holdings is the owner of Monotype Imaging Inc., Linotype,...
(later Agfa-Monotype) contributing to the creation of the Windows 3.1x
Windows 3.1x
Windows 3.1x is a series of 16-bit operating systems produced by Microsoft for use on personal computers. The series began with Windows 3.1, which was first sold during March 1992 as a successor to Windows 3.0...
core TrueType
TrueType
TrueType is an outline font standard originally developed by Apple Computer in the late 1980s as a competitor to Adobe's Type 1 fonts used in PostScript...
fonts: Arial
Arial
Arial, sometimes marketed or displayed in software as Arial MT, is a sans-serif typeface and set of computer fonts. Fonts from the Arial family are packaged with Microsoft Windows, some other Microsoft software applications, Apple Mac OS X and many PostScript 3 computer printers...
, Times New Roman and Courier New.
Matteson produced fonts for the Agfa-Monotype library (such as Goudy Ornate and Gill Floriated Capitals) and directed custom-font design for companies including Agilent Technologies
Agilent Technologies
Agilent Technologies , or Agilent, is a company that designs and manufactures electronic and bio-analytical measurement instruments and equipment for measurement and evaluation...
, Symantec
Symantec
Symantec Corporation is the largest maker of security software for computers. The company is headquartered in Mountain View, California, and is a Fortune 500 company and a member of the S&P 500 stock market index.-History:...
and Microsoft
Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...
. Matteson’s mono-spaced font design Andale Mono
Andale Mono
Andalé Mono is a monospaced sans-serif typeface designed by Steve Matteson for terminal emulation and software development environments, originally for the Taligent project by Apple Inc. and IBM...
is bundled with Mac OS X
Mac OS X
Mac OS X is a series of Unix-based operating systems and graphical user interfaces developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. Since 2002, has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems...
and was one of the original Core fonts for the Web
Core fonts for the Web
Core fonts for the Web was a project begun by Microsoft in 1996 to make a standard pack of fonts for the Internet. It was terminated in 2002. It included the proprietary fonts Andale Mono, Arial, Arial Black, Comic Sans MS, Courier New, Georgia, Impact, Times New Roman, Trebuchet MS, Verdana and...
.
Matteson directed custom type development for Agfa-Monotype until 2003. In 2004 he became a founding partner and Director of Type Design at Ascender Corporation
Ascender Corporation
Ascender Corporation is a digital typeface foundry and software development company located in the Chicago suburb of Elk Grove Village, Illinois in the United States...
in Elk Grove Village, Illinois.
In 2005 Matteson designed the font family Convection for use in the branding and user-interface of Microsoft’s Xbox 360
Xbox 360
The Xbox 360 is the second video game console produced by Microsoft and the successor to the Xbox. The Xbox 360 competes with Sony's PlayStation 3 and Nintendo's Wii as part of the seventh generation of video game consoles...
game console. Matteson also designed the user-interface font used in Microsoft’s Zune
Zune
Zune is a digital media brand owned by Microsoft which includes a line of portable media players, a digital media player software for Windows machines, a music subscription service known as a 'Zune Music Pass', music and video streaming for the Xbox 360 via the Zune Software, music, TV and movie...
music player. In 2007 software maker Red Hat
Red Hat
Red Hat, Inc. is an S&P 500 company in the free and open source software sector, and a major Linux distribution vendor. Founded in 1993, Red Hat has its corporate headquarters in Raleigh, North Carolina with satellite offices worldwide....
released the open-source Liberation fonts
Liberation fonts
Liberation is the collective name of four TrueType font families: Liberation Sans, Liberation Sans Narrow, Liberation Serif and Liberation Mono...
family designed by Matteson. Also in 2007, Matteson designed the Droid
Droid (font)
Droid is a font family created by Ascender Corporation for use by the Open Handset Alliance platform Android and licensed under the Apache License. The fonts are intended for use on the small screens of mobile handsets and were designed by Steve Matteson of Ascender Corporation...
family of fonts included in the Android mobile-phone platform supported by the Open Handset Alliance
Open Handset Alliance
The Open Handset Alliance is a consortium of 84 firms to develop open standards for mobile devices. Member firms include Google, HTC, Sony, Dell, Intel, Motorola, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments, Samsung Electronics, LG Electronics, T-Mobile, Nvidia, and Wind River Systems.-History:The OHA was...
.
Fonts designed by Steve Matteson
- Andale MonoAndale MonoAndalé Mono is a monospaced sans-serif typeface designed by Steve Matteson for terminal emulation and software development environments, originally for the Taligent project by Apple Inc. and IBM...
- Andy Bold
- Arimo
- Ascender Sans
- Ascender Sans Bold
- Ascender Serif
- Ascender Serif Bold
- Ayita
- Ayita Bold
- Binner Gothic
- Blueprint
- CambriaCambria (typeface)Cambria is part of the suite of fonts that comes with Microsoft Windows Vista, Windows 7, Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac and Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac, specifically designed for on-screen reading and to be aesthetically pleasing when printed at small sizes. It is a...
- Cambria BoldCambria (typeface)Cambria is part of the suite of fonts that comes with Microsoft Windows Vista, Windows 7, Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac and Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac, specifically designed for on-screen reading and to be aesthetically pleasing when printed at small sizes. It is a...
- Chicory
- Convection
- Cousine
- CurlzCurlzCurlz is a whimsical serif typeface designed by Carl Crossgrove and Steve Matteson in 1995 for Agfa Monotype. While decorative and without a historical model, the face bears comparison with the Emigre foundry's 1991 typeface Remedy designed by Frank Heine.A TrueType version of Curlz shipped as part...
- Dujour
- DroidDroid (font)Droid is a font family created by Ascender Corporation for use by the Open Handset Alliance platform Android and licensed under the Apache License. The fonts are intended for use on the small screens of mobile handsets and were designed by Steve Matteson of Ascender Corporation...
- Endurance Pro
- Endurance Pro Black
- Endurance Pro Light
- Facade Condensed
- Fineprint
- Fineprint Swash One
- Fineprint Swash Two
- Goudy Ornate
- Kootenay Pro
- Liberation MonoLiberation fontsLiberation is the collective name of four TrueType font families: Liberation Sans, Liberation Sans Narrow, Liberation Serif and Liberation Mono...
- Liberation SansLiberation fontsLiberation is the collective name of four TrueType font families: Liberation Sans, Liberation Sans Narrow, Liberation Serif and Liberation Mono...
- Liberation SerifLiberation fontsLiberation is the collective name of four TrueType font families: Liberation Sans, Liberation Sans Narrow, Liberation Serif and Liberation Mono...
- Lindsey Pro
- Massif Pro
- Mayberry
- Miramonte Pro
- Miramonte Pro Bold
- Open SansOpen SansOpen Sans is a humanist sans-serif typeface designed by Steve Matteson. It was designed with an "upright stress, open forms and a neutral, yet friendly appearance", being especially designed for legibility across print, web, and mobile interfaces. The character repertoire contains 897 glyphs.Open...
- Open Sans Condensed
- Othello
- Pescadero Pro
- Pescadero Pro Bold
- Segoe
- Sports Three
- Sports Two
- Tinos
- Titanium
- Truesdell
- Truesdell Ornaments
- Twentieth Century Poster Fonts
See also
- Ascender CorporationAscender CorporationAscender Corporation is a digital typeface foundry and software development company located in the Chicago suburb of Elk Grove Village, Illinois in the United States...
- Droid fontsDroid (font)Droid is a font family created by Ascender Corporation for use by the Open Handset Alliance platform Android and licensed under the Apache License. The fonts are intended for use on the small screens of mobile handsets and were designed by Steve Matteson of Ascender Corporation...
- Liberation fontsLiberation fontsLiberation is the collective name of four TrueType font families: Liberation Sans, Liberation Sans Narrow, Liberation Serif and Liberation Mono...
- Monotype CorporationMonotype CorporationMonotype Imaging Holdings is a Delaware corporation based in Woburn, Massachusetts and specializing in typesetting and typeface design as well as text and imaging solutions for use with consumer electronics devices. Monotype Imaging Holdings is the owner of Monotype Imaging Inc., Linotype,...
- Segoe UISegoe UISegoe is a Humanist typeface family that is best known for its usage by Microsoft. The company uses Segoe in their online and printed marketing materials, including recent logos for a number of products...
External links
- http://www.myfonts.com/person/matteson/steve/
- http://www.identifont.com/show?5LB
- http://www.fontshop.com/fonts/designer/steve_matteson/
- http://www.ascendercorp.com/stevepage.html
- http://typophile.com/node/16223?