Thomas Phinney was born in the USA, grew up in Canada, and lives on the west coast of the USA—since 2009 in Portland. He has an MS in typography and design from RIT, an MBA from UC Berkeley, and four patents. Phinney is the former president of ATypI and its longest-serving board member. He has worked at Adobe, Extensis and as CEO of FontLab. Phinney has designed typefaces for Adobe, Google and others. He is a fonts and typography consultant, and the world’s only font detective, doing forensic typography on issues such as forged documents and point size requirements.