Thomas Phinney is a type designer and former CEO of FontLab. In the 2000s, Phinney helped drive the adoption of OpenType within Adobe and in the marketplace. Phinney developed character set standards for Adobe, and designed the Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic typefaces hypatia sans, cristoforo and science gothic. Phinney has four patents and a master’s degree in printing and typography from the Rochester Institute of Technology, where he completed his thesis on technical challenges in multiple master font technology. Phinney has been on the board of ATypI since 2004. Blog: www.thomasphinney.com
Having attacked documents that threatened to topple a president and prop up a prime minister, Thomas Phinney is no stranger to high stakes. But, this was his first case involving an art object he saw at a famous museum. A unique certificate under glass was evidence that the provenance was one one of the world’s… Continue reading Font Detective: The Secret of the Certificate
“The topic of classification emerges in a variety of type design contexts. Historians tracing the evolution of typefaces or of individual letterforms, educators framing stylistic questions for designers, and vendors superimposing structures on vast type libraries are all classifying type, but they are performing distinct tasks. In his own research, which explores algorithmic letter fitting… Continue reading Parametric Type Classification in the Context of Letter Fitting