Thomas Phinney is involved in the design, technical, historical and business aspects of type. His first retail typeface was
Hypatia Sans, an Adobe Original created while he was
Adobe’s product manager for fonts. He funded his second, Cristoforo, through a
Kickstarter campaign. Thomas has a Master’s degree in typography and design from
RIT, and an MBA from
UC Berkeley. He is currently Vice President of
FontLab, the makers of popular font editing tools, and lives in Portland, Oregon.
