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Our friend Tom
Posted by Randolph Burke in
5 Feb 2007 — 2:31pm
5 Feb 2007 — 2:31pm
Dear Typophile Regulars,
I have been lead to believe that Thomas Phiney, the much respected Adobe software programmer who frequently clarifies matters in these forums, has designed a geometric sans serif typeface named HYPATIA SANS. We seem to have missed each other at many conferences so I have not personally had a chance to examine it closely. Can anyone tell me more? Can we see it? Is it true that it was co-designed by Rob Slimback? When will it be released? I am deducing that it will be bundled with the CREATIVE SUITE THREE product line. I hope for the sake of graphic designers that this is the case!
Another topic related to our friend, Tom. Does anyone know if his Ph.D. paper on MULTIPLE MASTER technology is available on the net? I have been using Letterror's SUPERPOLATOR application for several months and I am now interested in the history and theory of interpolation techniques. From what I have heard, Tom is the undisputed expert of all interpolation so I would very much like to read his paper!
Sincerely,
Randolph T. Burke
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5 Feb 2007 — 3:01pm
There was a thread recently where he stated that it would indeed be bundled with next Creative Suite. And if I remember correctly, there has been talk about his paper, too but he said it was uninteresting or something like that. I hope I’m not totally wrong here.
5 Feb 2007 — 3:03pm
http://typophile.com/node/30916
5 Feb 2007 — 11:58pm
I'm not sure Thomas explicitly said that Hypatia will be bundled with CS3, only that it will be released in Spring. Arno Pro was confirmed to be a CS3 bonus.
13 Apr 2007 — 10:47pm
Sorry I missed this thread. I was kind of crazy-busy for a while there.
Hypatia Sans will be a registration incentive for CS3. Robert Slimbach certainly gave me constant feedback and tweaking suggestions; you might reasonably say that I'm the designer but he's the art director. There are still some things in the final typeface that he wasn't at all convinced about, such as the unicase alternates. Lots more info will be available some time next week on my blog.
The thing on MMs was my master's thesis, not a PhD dissertation. The most useful information in it was a detailed exploration of the phenomenon of kinking, which I have been known to cover at various seminars such as the ATypI TypeTech Forum. If you ever catch me at a conference I'd be happy to go over it at length. A copy of the slides from one of my presentations can be found here: http://blogs.adobe.com/typblography/atypi2006/Advanced%20MM%20theory.pdf , but the kinking issue I mostly do in demonstration, as I recall, so the slides may not be very helpful.
Must run now. Time to read bedtime stories to my daughter.
Cheers,
T