Thomas Phinney
Thomas Phinney is CEO of FontLab, the font software tools company. Their latest app, FontLab VI, supports design and editing of both color and variable fonts. Thomas previously had strategic font product management roles at Adobe and Extensis. In the 2000s, he was instrumental in driving the adoption of OpenType, both within Adobe and in the marketplace. Thomas also developed character set standards for Adobe, and is the designer of Latin/Greek/Cyrillic typefaces Hypatia Sans and Cristoforo.
Thomas has four patents and a medal. He also has an MS in printing/typography from the Rochester Institute of Technology—where he did his thesis on the precursor to today’s variable font technology—and an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley. Thomas has been on the board of ATypI since 2004.
