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Thomas Phinney

@tphinney@typo.social
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Fonts & typography. Type designer, expert witness and consultant. ATypI board member. Dad and spouse. He/his or they/theirs

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Joined November 10, 2022
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https://thefontdetective.com
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Thomas Phinney
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Fonts & typography. Type designer, expert witness and consultant. ATypI board member. Dad and spouse. He/his or they/theirs

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Thomas Phinney
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Fonts & typography. Type designer, expert witness and consultant. ATypI board member. Dad and spouse. He/his or they/theirs

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@tphinney@typo.social · 2d ago

When I was just getting serious about type design and typography VERY MANY people were helpful to me, took me seriously, and gave me useful feedback, advice, critiques, introductions to other folks... everything, really.

If you don’t know me well or even at all, but are at ATypI next month or TypeCon in August, and could benefit from any of that, OR even just want to say hello, or chat about the talks, or whatever — please introduce yourself!

(I do not bite and am largely house-trained, I promise.)

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Fonts & typography. Type designer, expert witness and consultant. ATypI board member. Dad and spouse. He/his or they/theirs

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Fonts & typography. Type designer, expert witness and consultant. ATypI board member. Dad and spouse. He/his or they/theirs

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@tphinney@typo.social · Apr 09, 2026

The past week has been a horrifying crush of massive font dev work, which would have been a total nightmare if not for the fact that the client point person has been shockingly reasonable and very aware of the workload involved.

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Fonts & typography. Type designer, expert witness and consultant. ATypI board member. Dad and spouse. He/his or they/theirs

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Fonts & typography. Type designer, expert witness and consultant. ATypI board member. Dad and spouse. He/his or they/theirs

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@tphinney@typo.social · Apr 06, 2026

RE: @evacide@hachyderm.io

It is a travesty that this person did not get jail time.

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evacide: "Convicted stalkerware-maker Bryan Fleming avoids …" - Hachyderm.io

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Fonts & typography. Type designer, expert witness and consultant. ATypI board member. Dad and spouse. He/his or they/theirs

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Thomas Phinney
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Fonts & typography. Type designer, expert witness and consultant. ATypI board member. Dad and spouse. He/his or they/theirs

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@tphinney@typo.social · Apr 05, 2026

This is a great explanation of some key factors about how to do AI “vibe coding” better… or worse. https://bramcohen.com/p/the-cult-of-vibe-coding-is-insane

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The Cult Of Vibe Coding Is Insane
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The Cult Of Vibe Coding Is Insane

Bad software is a choice you make

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Fonts & typography. Type designer, expert witness and consultant. ATypI board member. Dad and spouse. He/his or they/theirs

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@tphinney@typo.social · Apr 03, 2026
@Luke @onpaperwings That really looks hand lettered to me, based on the subtle variations in some repeating letters, and expecially subtle contextual variations.
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Fonts & typography. Type designer, expert witness and consultant. ATypI board member. Dad and spouse. He/his or they/theirs

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Fonts & typography. Type designer, expert witness and consultant. ATypI board member. Dad and spouse. He/his or they/theirs

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@tphinney@typo.social · Apr 02, 2026

RE: @fontra@typo.social

Loose .exe works fine for me, but I get how a Windows installer would help the average user, for sure.

Anybody?

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Fontra: "Help Wanted: Windows users seem to prefer a prop…" - typo.social

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Fonts & typography. Type designer, expert witness and consultant. ATypI board member. Dad and spouse. He/his or they/theirs

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Fonts & typography. Type designer, expert witness and consultant. ATypI board member. Dad and spouse. He/his or they/theirs

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@tphinney@typo.social · Mar 28, 2026

AI-generated bug reports & fixes suddenly went from junk to legit, says Linux kernel maintainer:

https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/26/greg_kroahhartman_ai_kernel/

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Interview: Greg Kroah-Hartman can't explain the inflection point, but it's not slowing down or going away

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Fonts & typography. Type designer, expert witness and consultant. ATypI board member. Dad and spouse. He/his or they/theirs

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@tphinney@typo.social · Mar 24, 2026
@w__h_ I mean, it does exist, but... the procedure for proposing emoji is very open. LONG AND PAINFUL, but open. Mind you, the emoji subcomittee of the Unicode Consortium has set the criteria for inclusion, which is critical. They are, in fact, Big Emoji. 😛 😂
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@tphinney@typo.social · Jan 04, 2026
@cstross@wandering.shop I am yet another person saying that they do two different things (or at least, they SHOULD), and it therefore depends on what the goal is. For example, for your poll, if it is a binary choice, they should be represented as radio buttons.
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Fonts & typography. Type designer, expert witness and consultant. ATypI board member. Dad and spouse. He/his or they/theirs

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@tphinney@typo.social · May 06, 2025
@TiroTypeworks @davidsudweeks @timahrens Just to clarify, I ran a check on a series of periods. I should do it again on period + ellipsis. And ellipsis + period.
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Fonts & typography. Type designer, expert witness and consultant. ATypI board member. Dad and spouse. He/his or they/theirs

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@tphinney@typo.social · May 06, 2025
@davidsudweeks @TiroTypeworks @timahrens That is dependent on the app’s linebreaking algorithms. Current versions of Microsoft Word (Mac) and Adobe InDesign don’t break any series of periods in the middle, and attach them to a preceding word if there is no space in between. Seems good to me! Apps often have additional special behaviors for extreme cases when they run out of other line break options. But in general these are working well, I think.
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Fonts & typography. Type designer, expert witness and consultant. ATypI board member. Dad and spouse. He/his or they/theirs

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@tphinney@typo.social · May 05, 2025
@TiroTypeworks @timahrens Sure, that is a reasonable way to do it. (Makes note to self.)
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Thomas Phinney
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Fonts & typography. Type designer, expert witness and consultant. ATypI board member. Dad and spouse. He/his or they/theirs

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@tphinney@typo.social · May 03, 2025
@timahrens For any of these choices, but especially if not “the same as three periods,” really serious typefaces should have a ligature for period + ellipsis and ellipsis + period, to ensure consistent spacing.
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