Welcome toMatteson Typographics
I’m Steve Matteson, a type designer who loves bringing letters to life—whether it means creating fonts for cutting-edge digital platforms or reviving timeless designs from typography’s rich history.
My experiences range from designing Microsoft’s Aptos and Google’s Open Sans fonts to building custom brand fonts for Toyota, Xbox, Unilever, and others. I stay connected to the tradition and craft of type through letterpress printing and typographic education.
Typography is my passion. Whether I’m reviving historical designs or creating fonts for today’s most cutting-edge applications, I strive to craft letterforms that connect and communicate.
If you’re looking for typefaces, typeface pairings, letterpress prints, or would just like to talk about typography, I’d love to hear from you.
Custom Fonts
Premier quality typefaces that reflect your brand’s voice with clarity and distinction. Whether you’re a software brand or healthcare service, or involved in financial services, educational, gaming or automotive products, effective communication is crucial.
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Retail Fonts
Explore my growing library of timeless and functional font families, crafted with care for use on the screen and in print.
Type your own text and adjust the size in the sample!
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Letterpress
Tactile craftsmanship comes to life with letterpress printing. Here in Colorado, the Book Arts League rekindled my love of setting type and printing letterpress – a process I enjoyed as a student at Rochester Institute of Technology. I now have my own shop and love to experiment with short run broadsides and cards. A few examples are shown below and this page will ultimately offer items for sale.
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Real-World Designs Solving Real‑Life Problems
Unilever: Designing Structure with Personality
Unilever’s branding is anything but quiet, and as I listened more closely to how they described their brand, I realized they weren’t just asking for geometry. They were asking for balance.
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Helping Toyota Move People
Toyota is synonymous with engineering excellence and technological innovation, but as the company sought a unifying brand typeface, one key phrase guided the entire process: “We move people.”
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Segoe: Microsoft’s All-Purpose Sans
When Microsoft began implementing ClearType—their new subpixel rendering technology for LCD screens—they realized they needed more than just new tech. They needed a new typeface.
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Blasting Off: Rocket Mortgage
Rocket Mortgage came to me with a clear starting point: they wanted a geometric sans serif to reflect their tech-forward brand and to harmonize with their existing logo.
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