Thomas Phinney · President of ATypI. Font-related forensics, type design, font production, general typography expertise.

As I said in the original post, Adobe is not ending support in Acrobat, Acrobat Reader and Adobe Sign. And I just remembered a blog post I made on behalf of Adobe in 2005, talking about phasing out T… (View Post)

Sure. But it is also an expense to continue supporting a legacy format forever. What proportion of other software that you licensed between 1985 and 2005, are you still running the same version of, … (View Post)

Back when Adobe finished converting its font library to OpenType around 2003-04, I wanted to draw some kind of line in the sand, but that idea got quickly shot down from many sides. However, the day … (View Post)

So, I wrote an article about some changes in the font biz over the past decade or more: so. https://www.commarts.com/columns/fontocalypse-now (the print article has a sidebar, which is why there is t… (View Post)

Well, you are saved from doing the work. It is a “bonus” of sort of insurance against the loss of potential future work. So I would definitely not charge as much. Maybe figure out, on average, how mu… (View Post)