Thomas Rickner (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Thomas Rickner is an American type designer who, while Lead Typographer at Apple Inc., supervised the production of the first TrueType fonts released in 1991 as part of Apple's System 7 operating system for the Macintosh. Rickner provided TrueType production and font hinting of Matthew Carter's Georgia, Verdana, and Tahoma typeface families, commissioned by Microsoft and widely distributed in the Windows operating system and Apple's Mac OS X. Rickner's original type designs include Amanda, Buffalo Gal and Hamilton. Rickner began his career in type design in 1987 as a bitmap editor for Omnipage Corporation, of Rochester, New York.