Thomas Rickner

[1] Rickner provided TrueType production and font hinting of Matthew Carter’s Georgia, Verdana,[2] and Tahoma typeface families, commissioned by Microsoft and widely distributed in the Windows operating system and Apple’s Mac OS X.

Rickner began his career in type design in 1987 as a bitmap editor for Omnipage Corporation, of Rochester, New York.

In 1988, he was graduated from the Rochester Institute of Technology School of Printing Management and Sciences with a bachelor's degree, and started at QMS/Imagen Corporation, a laser printer manufacturer in Santa Clara, California.

There, under the direction of noted type designer Charles Bigelow, Rickner worked in the production and hand font hinting for laser printers.

[4] In 1992, Rickner began freelance type design work for The Font Bureau, Inc. collaborating on the development of several projects, including the Graphite and Tekton Multiple master fonts for Adobe Systems and a revival and expansion of William Addison Dwiggins’ Eldorado family for Premiere Magazine.