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

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First NameThomas
Last NamePhinney
Preferred Pronounshe/him or they/them
CompanyFont Detective LLC
TitleFont-related forensics, type design, font production, general typography expertise.
LocationPortland, OR, USA
Websitehttps://thefontdetective.com
BioThomas Phinney is a font forensics specialist and type designer, who has created fonts for Adobe and Google. He helped lead Adobe’s conversion of their font library to OpenType in his time there (1997–2008). Phinney is also involved in the business of type, having been product manager for fonts at Adobe and Extensis, and CEO of FontLab. He has four patents, an MS in printing/typography from RIT, and an MBA from UC Berkeley. Phinney served on the board of ATypI from 2004–20, and 2023–25. He was at various times President, VP, Treasurer and Secretary, served on many ATypI committees, and was involved in conference program selections for almost all the ATypI conferences in this time, including often being curator or co-curator of font technology portions of the program. Phinney did his Master’s thesis on “Extreme Form Change in Multiple Master Fonts,” a precursor to modern variable font technology. He designed Adobe Original typeface Hypatia Sans, and his team’s open-source typeface Science Gothic is a 4-axis variable font commissioned by Google Fonts. He developed and maintains a variable font version of Google’s Material Design icons for Google, with Vassil Kateliev, with over 3000 icons.

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