Steven R. Matteson (born 1965,

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) is an American

typeface A typeface (or font family) is the design of lettering that can include variations in size, weight (e.g. bold), slope (e.g. italic), width (e.g. condensed), and so on. Each of these variations of the typeface is a font. There are thousands o ...

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 font family

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included since

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; 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

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and the

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Biography

Matteson is a 1988 graduate of

Rochester Institute of Technology Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) is a private research university in the town of Henrietta in the Rochester, New York, metropolitan area. The university offers undergraduate and graduate degrees, including doctoral and professional ...

where he studied

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and printing. Upon graduation, he spent two years learning

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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

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core

TrueType TrueType is an outline font standard developed by Apple in the late 1980s as a competitor to Adobe's Type 1 fonts used in PostScript. It has become the most common format for fonts on the classic Mac OS, macOS, and Microsoft Windows operating ...

fonts:

Arial Arial (also called Arial MT) is a sans-serif typeface and set of computer fonts in the neo-grotesque style. Fonts from the Arial family are included with all versions of Microsoft Windows from Windows 3.1 on, some other Microsoft software ap ...

Times New Roman Times New Roman is a serif typeface. It was commissioned by the British newspaper ''The Times'' in 1931 and conceived by Stanley Morison, the artistic adviser to the British branch of the printing equipment company Monotype, in collaboration w ...

and

Courier New Courier is a monospaced slab serif typeface. The typeface was designed by Howard "Bud" Kettler (1919–1999). Initially created for IBM's typewriters, it has been adapted for use as a computer font, and versions of it are installed on most deskt ...

. Matteson produced fonts for the Agfa-Monotype library (such as Goudy Ornate and Gill Floriated Capitals) and directed custom-font design for companies including

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, Symantec and

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. Matteson designed Andalé Mono as a mono-spaced command line and coding font for

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. The font is now bundled with

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and was one of the original

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. 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 was a digital typeface foundry and software development company located in the Chicago suburb of Elk Grove Village, Illinois in the United States. It was founded in 2004 by a team of software developers, typographers, and font ...

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, Illinois. In 2005, Matteson designed the font family Convection for use in the branding and user-interface of Microsoft’s

game console. Matteson also designed the user-interface font used in Microsoft’s

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music player. In 2007 software maker Red Hat released the open-source

Liberation fonts Liberation is the collective name of four TrueType font families: ''Liberation Sans'', ''Liberation Sans Narrow'', ''Liberation Serif'', and ''Liberation Mono''. These fonts are metrically compatible with the most popular fonts on the Microsof ...

family designed by Matteson. Also in 2007, Matteson designed the Droid family of fonts included in the Android mobile-phone platform supported by the

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Fonts designed by Steve Matteson

* Andalé Mono *

Andalé Sans Andalé Sans (usually appearing as Andale Sans) is a proportional sans-serif typeface designed by Steve Matteson to complement its monospaced counterpart, Andalé Mono. Use Andalé Sans was used in the high-end feature phones produced by Sony ...

* Andy Bold * Arimo *Ascender Sans *Ascender Sans Bold *Ascender Serif *Ascender Serif Bold *Ayita *Ayita Bold *Bierstadt *Binner Gothic *Blueprint *

Cambria Cambria is a name for Wales, being the Latinised form of the Welsh name for the country, . The term was not in use during the Roman period (when Wales had not come into existence as a distinct entity). It emerged later, in the medieval period, ...

* Cambria Bold *Chicory *Convection * Cousine *

Curlz Curlz MT is an OTF display typeface designed by Carl Crossgrove and Steve Matteson in 1995 for Agfa Monotype. It's distinct from other popular typefaces, characterized by its wavy strokes and swirls at the beginning or end of letters. Similar t ...

*Dujour * Droid *Endurance Pro *Endurance Pro Black *Endurance Pro Light *Facade Condensed *Fineprint *Fineprint Swash One *Fineprint Swash Two *Futura Now *Goudy Ornate *Kootenay Pro * Liberation Mono *

Liberation Sans Liberation or liberate may refer to: Film and television * ''Liberation'' (film series), a 1970–1971 series about the Great Patriotic War * "Liberation" (''The Flash''), a TV episode * "Liberation" (''K-9''), an episode Gaming * '' Liberati ...

* Liberation Serif *Lindsey Pro *Massif Pro *Mayberry *Miramonte Pro *Miramonte Pro Bold * Noto Sans for Latin *

Open Sans Open Sans is an open source humanist sans-serif typeface designed by Steve Matteson, commissioned by Google and released in 2011. It is based on his previous Droid Sans design, designed for Android mobile devices, but slightly wider. Featuring ...

* Open Sans Condensed *Open Serif *Othello *Pescadero Pro *Pescadero Pro Bold *

*Sports Three *Sports Two *

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*Titanium *Truesdell *Truesdell Ornaments *Twentieth Century Poster Fonts

References

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