![]() Over the years, somehow, the ascenders of the caps in Regular have been printing thicker. We come from a tradition of fine typography, and have used Hypatia with pleasure. Our Press received Hypatia Pro in 2007 with copies of the Adobe Creative Suite. ![]() Much of what we’ve read indicates that some of the newer applications won’t even recognize Type 1 fonts. Is it true that Adobe Type 1 fonts are becoming obsolete?Ĭurrently we use Framemaker 8 to produce large training manuals using all Type 1 fonts, and whenever we try to substitute Open Type fonts, the Distiller pulls the Type 1 fonts anyway, even when they don’t seem to be installed on the system. If you want just way too much detail about Thomas, you can read a much longer biography. He has long been involved in the design, technical, forensic, business, standards and history of type. Thomas has spoken at about a hundred conferences across North America, Europe and Asia, including ATypI, AIGA, TypeCon, WebVisions, the InDesign Conference, Adobe MAX, SXSW, and many others. ![]() His latest typeface is the Kickstarter-funded Cristoforo. His typeface Hypatia Sans is an Adobe Original (with help from Robert Slimbach, Miguel Sousa and Paul Hunt). “guru”) of fonts and typography at Extensis, including managing the font library for the WebINK web font solution. After that he spent five years as senior technical product manager (a.k.a. From 1997-2008 he did type at Adobe, lastly as product manager for fonts and global typography. ![]() Since 2004 he has been on the board of ATypI, the international typographic association. In his day job, Thomas is CEO of FontLab, the font creation/editing software company. He also does consulting and expert witness work, where he is known as “The Font Detective.” For secure email content, use his public key and PGP. Thomas Phinney is a font and typography expert and consultant, who can be reached by email as tphinney at the domain (they do free email for alumni). It’s a mix of geeky troubleshooting, info for type designers and font makers, and thoughts for regular end users who happen to be curious about typography. Thomas PhinneyThis blog is about fonts, typography and text.
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