Oy! Sadly, we have to add our friend, Thomas Phinney, to the list of newly ex-Adobe staffers (see our post about the Dec. 3 layoffs here). Tom’s most recent official title at Adobe was Product Manager for Fonts & Global Typography. Many InDesign users, though, assumed his position was Source For All Good Things OpenType-Related in InDesign. His seminar on Fonts & Typography at the recent InDesign Conference Master Class was standing-room only.
Thomas’s most recent contribution to InDesign users is probably most tangible in the 3,000-glyph typeface he designed, Hypatia Sans Pro, which CS3 or CS4 users can download freely as a registration premium. Tom wrote about the development of Hypatia Sans in his Adobe blog, Typoblography, the Phinney-Us Blog. (And, coincidentally, it was the face I used for the table heads in the Guide to Special Characters PDF I posted last week.)
Thomas publicly announced his departure on his blog (buried in his last post, “Text Framework rasterization – and good-bye”) and on Facebook, where he changed his status to “Thomas Phinney is newly job-free” on December 11.
In this thread at Typophile.com (where Thomas is a frequent poster) about his parting ways with Adobe, he says, “I have every intention of remaining involved in the type community.”
We certainly hope so! And we all wish you the best of everything, Thomas, in whatever new adventure awaits you.
This article was last modified on December 19, 2021
This article was first published on December 15, 2008
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