What it has done is to capture the good color, and the generous breadth and modelling of its model, and to bring a valid version of 'Scotch Roman' back into current use after a lapse of some decades. Matthew Carter's Miller is not a facsimile of Miller's Scotch Roman, any more than his Galliard was a facsimile of any one type by Robert Granjon. Mosley described Carter's revival of Miller as follows: Certain other letters, such as the lowercase “k” and the Text cut’s default capital “R”, are drawn from other faces cut by Richard Austin, such as his type for John Bell. The flat-topped lowercase “t” is not original to Miller’s or Wilson’s types, but a “wrong font” Didone sort introduced later - possibly by mistake - that became entrenched in the style in the latter half of the 19th century. Īlthough Miller remains faithful to the Scotch Roman style, it is not based on any single historical example. This attribution is accepted by Austin's biographer Alastair Johnston (Hansard was writing in 1825, during Austin's lifetime) although Mosley had earlier expressed caution on the attribution. According to Thomas Curson Hansard these were mostly cut by punchcutter Richard Austin of London. Miller is a "Scotch Roman"-a style which originated in types sold by Scottish type foundries of Alexander Wilson and William Miller in the period of 1810–1820. The Miller family was designed by Matthew Carter and developed with the assistance of the Font Bureau's Tobias Frere-Jones and Cyrus Highsmith, and the encouragement of James Mosley, a librarian at the St Bride Library of the history of printing in London.
Miller was one of 23 typefaces included in MoMA's first acquisition of historically significant typefaces. Font Bureau in marketing have called Miller "the debonair cousin of Georgia". Carter had been working on plans for what became Miller when contacted by Microsoft but put them temporarily on hold to work on Georgia, which is adapted to digital display. Miller is closely related to Carter's previous Scotch Roman revival, the very popular Georgia family for Microsoft. The Miller family is widely used, mostly in newspapers and magazines. The general purpose versions of Miller are Miller Text and the Miller Display optical size for display printing, though since their release they have given rise to a number of variants, including Miller Daily, Miller Headline and Miller Banner, as well as some variants commissioned for use in specific publications.
It is named for William Miller, founder of the long-lasting Miller & Richard type foundry of Edinburgh. It was designed by Matthew Carter and is of the 'transitional' style from around 1800, based on the " Scotch Roman" type which originates from types sold by Scottish type foundries that later became popular in the United States. Miller is a serif typeface, released in 1997 by the Font Bureau, a U.S.-based digital type foundry.
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