“Matthew Carter, a type design­er and the recip­i­ent of a MacArthur genius grant, was recent­ly approached in the street near his home in Cam­bridge, Mass­a­chu­setts. A woman greet­ed him by name. “Have we met?” Mr Carter asked. No, she said, her daugh­ter had point­ed him out when they were dri­ving down the street a few days before. “Is your daugh­ter a graph­ic design­er?” he inquired. “She’s in sixth grade,” came the reply.”

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