My Type
peace

Thomas:

Here are a couple:

Mixed Sorts
Word Space

One more: Virgule.

I think I like that one just because it feels cool to know what one is.

Okay, enough . . . I’ll let the adults play now.

Type Casting

Fontabule
Typo’font
?
Kristina

Phineas FOG
Phinney’s Blogg
Phineus Blogg (Phineus was a borther to Cadmus - the Greek alphabet guy)
Phinney the Second (JW being the first)

More soon...

hhp

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe

What about:
Tom’s Pueblo
Pueblog
Stucco
Native Whitewash

More soon...

hhp

Typophile!

No, wait...

Open, Type, Font
Adobe with Character
Out of Sorts
Get the Lead Out

I’d Rather Be Kerning

Type log

Press & Form

A very inside pun on the concept of Adobe as clay . . .

:D

Thomas, what is the deadline?

No particular deadline, but I’d like to make a decision by Monday morning. If I’m feeling uninspired, it could drag on.

Of course I was already feeling uninspired (and slightly jet-lagged), thus the posting here.

Cheers,

T

Typographology?
Citizen Type?
Tipografico? (as in the Manuale Tipographico by Bodoni)
IHeartType?
MyOtherCarIsASanSerif?
TheTypologist?

Type Review

Héctor

Type Chase

Long Primer
Great Primer
Nonpareil
Mutton Quad
Rationalist Axis
Hard Space

Tom on Type

’Thomas the Type Engine’

John, good one.

hhp

The Phin Man
The Phin Read Line
Get Your Kern On
Phin on Phonts
TomCaps
You Can’t Spell “TYPE” without T.P.

More later :)...

Pied Typer
Type Pie
Open Counter

Typblography or Typblographer or
Typ(bl)ography or Typ(bl)ographer

‘Thomas the Type Engine’

Damn! I can’t believe John beat me to that one. He was a real Mr Topumhat :-)

ChrisL

Dances With Fonts

hhp

Phinneyals

ChrisL

Thomas gets Sorted

ChrisL

Tomahawk

hhp

OpenTom

hhp

Uncle Tom’s Kiva

hhp

hypertype - kinda got that httppeal

typeline

tyblography

(I like the type engine too)

Paul Dwyer

• Hint & Out

• Thomas Magazine

• A Note From Thomas

• Handle with Care

• Adobe Type Thomas

• The Metrics

• ThomasExplorer Pro

• Fontophinney

• Adobe Type Manager

• TypeWeek

• Adobe Thomas Std / Pro

• Thomas Extended

• Thomas Phinney Regular

A more brand-identified version of my above suggestion:

Adobe Typblog

My suggestions are

Some Type of Phinney
Typically Thomas, or just Typically
Au Font de Bois (just in case you’d live somewhere in the woods ...)

• What’s the point?
• Notes on notan
• Up the descender, down the ascender
• Take your pica
• em muse
• iFont
• The composition

Tim

Space is a letter
Phin says
Various characters
Some Characters
Ascender jungle
Phinney’s Open Types
OpenTyped
OpenTyper
OpenTypographer
One More Font

PhinneyOpen
PhinOpen - OpenPhin - OpenThom
PhinBlog - PhinBlogger
PhinneyBlog

ThommyBlockers :-)

—astype.de—

Typo Beaujolais

Phints
(Phinney + fonts + Hints [tech.: type hinting + instruction, tip, indication])
It’s short, easy to spell and remember and it does not include the both obvious and ubiquitous “type” label that I think is not necessary in the blog title - your readers will associate it anyway. “Phints” also includes a subtle notion of “mints”, which would be small (11pt? ;-]) intensive and distinctive candies – not the worst thing to have in mind when thinking about entries of your blog.
Alternatively, if you don’t trust the readers’ media literacy and want to stress the word “type” like other posts have implicitly suggested, you could append “-ty” or “-type” (would then be: Phinty/Phintype), but you’d lose some of the “fonts” and “hints” associations.
Perhaps a short subtitle like “Thoughts on type(, Adobe) and more by Thomas Phinney” would clarify your blog’s goal and its contents.

Phinney on Fonts

Phinney’s Font Folder

Type Talk

Phintograpy
TypograPhin
GutenPhin
In with Phin
Seriphin (Tom as Angel of Fonts)

Typing About Type

The Type Nerd

My Type Blog (just kidding)

InPhinntessamal

ChrisL

Phinney.fea

ChrisL

Just Phinnished

ChrisL

typemas
InType
glyphblog
OpenThomas
phinnitype

making type
making fonts
fontcraft
typecraft

Bald Extended? :^P

About Face

The Serif Sheriff

Hmmm

Making Faces

Just in type
Ligature
Glyphtown
in dash
em sight (I couldn’t resist, sorry about that :-)

’Phinney Pheatures Phine Phonts’.. :)
’Lets talk about Type, Baby’..
’TypeTeqTalk’..
’OpenToType’..
’Lettr’..

Dav, formlos

PhinnType, no that won’t work.
We Love Miranda, yes that is the one.

:)

Wow, quite a few excellent suggestions already! I will definitely have no problem finding something I like from this list. I’m glad I asked. :)

There are so many posts that I’ll need to take some time to review them all. Let’s say that the cut-off will be Sunday evening at 9 pm PST.

Cheers,

T

Adobe Will Take Over the World, But First This Blog

• ATM - Adobe Thomas Magazine

• Cup Height with Thomas

• Spine City

Phin space

Why did not anybody come up with
PostScript?!
Too obvious, and registered by Adobe, too?
Hyphenating it (post-script) would show the difference that lies between blogging/posting and scribing/making type and thus denominate the space between the two as your field of work. You’ll write about Typography (post/after script) – Plus, you’ll write, and you are connected to Adobe… It doesn’t tell anything about OpenType, though. But content will dominate its paratext anyway.

TomTomClub
HeavyMetalCast

Letters on Type
TypeWriting
Flush
Teaspoon of Type
TheQuickBrownFoX
Brown Fox
Normal Tracking
Lowercase Life
Baseline Bowl

I know... I’m silly!

Ragnar Freyr
www.onrushdesign.com
www.formislandia.com

can it be a made up word?

Typeblographer

oh someone already said that one. i like it, pretty catchy.

Goudyamus
St Bride’s West
.AFM
Font Outlines
Manutiae

phintissential

pd

Type A

One more:
Type & Character

Why not typeface?

face type

ChrisL

Balderdash

ChrisL

diss a point
glyph notes
character sketches
phinney’s phont phorum
phontphorum

Wow, they keep on coming. I just made a “short list,” but it had 14 names on it, so not very short. Plus I already have three special runners up that are great titles but I just can’t use them for one reason or another.

I’ll check back in tomorrow evening....

T

Alphablog
Alphabetter
Beaucoup Phinney
Encore Phinney
Phont

zentype

the em space
peace

font memories (or memory)

Alphabetties Dig It

Now I can’t stop thinking about it although I should think about something different.
signature
(the nature of a sign-maker)
more solid:
type matters
damn, somebody already uses that in a very ’nice’ way – btw, that applies to ’movable type’, too. So what about
font matters?
When I thought about what else could matter, there were some more:
footnotes
stereotype
typomat

Premeire Pro
Phinney Premeire Pro or alternately Thomas Premeire Pro

Phinneyals

ChrisL

PhinneyUncensored.otf
;)

Lets Talk Type

TypeTalk

TalkingType

Face Time
Face to Face

Infonth
(info, font, indepth)

Grey Matters (Or maybe that should be for Hrant...)

ƒ

W-What’s the prize?

Face Value

> Grey Matters (Or maybe that should be for Hrant…)

Only if I could get a glyph that looks to be equally an “a” or an “e” (for gray/gray).
Hmmm, or could it be “Græy”? That would be classy, like “Quærendo”.

Amy, good one.

hhp

But thats inZane Graey :-)

ChrisL

typewire

The name typblography is fun to say and it’s clever, but I confess to hating the term blog... A “web log”, as a concept, seems so one dimensional and so limiting. Unless it is going to be just the ramblings of a lone author, I’d avoid the word.

Name: Adobe Typepueblo
Tagline: We’re not just mud and straw!

:-P

Flex

• Phinney’s Anatomy

• true to type

• The T Files

Let’s Talk Type

I almost suggested that one. It was the title of the first article about type I ever wrote (Metropolis, The Weekly Newspaper of Minneapolis, 1977). It was a one-page tongue-in-cheek look at typographic clichés. I may put it on my site some time for the heck of it. I still like that title.

Tom’s Adobe Hacienda :-)

ChrisL

• Phinneyr Points

• TAP — The Adobe Pointer

• to the point

• The Pointer

Lets Talk Type

I almost suggested that one. It was the title of the first article about type I ever wrote (Metropolis, The Weekly Newspaper of Minneapolis, 1977). It was a one-page tongue-in-cheek look at typographic clichés. I may put it on my site some time for the heck of it. I still like that title.
(hopefully the above paragraph is in italics)

I honestly have never been to Minneapolis or read your local newspaper.
I’m located in Vancouver, B.C.

gln

I think you misunderstood me. I wasn’t suggesting that you stole my idea from 1977. You know what they say, great minds think alike. It just made me remember the article I’d written years ago. That’s all. (Also, Metropolis folded before the end of 1977. Very few remember it.)

As I said, I still like the title, and if it’s chosen, of course you should get the credit (and the prize).

typographically speaking.

atypical

Well, it’s been hard to narrow things down, but I have it down to a handful of nine finalists:

Phinneyus Blogg (inspired by Hrant)
My Other Car is a Sans Serif (superkhy - might use this as a subtitle below the actual main title)
Typ(bl)ography (Jason)
Tyblography (or a variant, Paul Dwyer)
Fontabule (Kristina)
Phonts (inspired by Stephan Kurz “Phints,” later also “Phont” suggested by Chester)
Seriphin (Norbert Florendo)
Font Matters (Stephan Kurz)
TypeTalk (gln)

Here are some that nearly made it:

Long Primer (John Butler)
Thomas the Type Engine (John Hudson)
OpenTypographer (Jan Sandvik)
Type & Character (Stephan Kurz)
Type A (jupiterboy)

And these special runners up, that I had to eliminate for other reasons besides how much I liked them personally:

- Adobe Type Manager, which is a great title, but since the product is discontinued it’s probably politically incorrect now. Also would be easily confused with the application if anybody ever Googled to find the blog.

- We Love Miranda, which is very true, but probably not suitable for this particular blog. (Miranda is my daughter’s name.)

- PostScript or post-script, which are very good, but in the context of Adobe will make people think of something else.

- PhinneyUncensored.otf, which has great appeal personally, but probably has some wrong connotations for this purpose.

- Whatever Fredo suggested, just because he has a Watchmen/Rorshach avatar/icon thingie. :) They almost made a movie of it, too. http://www.efavata.com/CBM/Watchmen.htm

I think I have further narrowed it down to one of these two:

Phinneyus Blogg (inspired by Hrant)
Tyblography (Jason / Paul Dwyer)

With this subtitle:

My Other Car is a Sans Serif (superkhy - might use this as a subtitle below the actual main title)

Dang, this is hard to choose between. I may go consult with my co-workers...

Thank you ALL for your multitudinous suggestions. Just because you didn’t make the short list doesn’t mean you didn’t have good ideas, just that somebody else’s turn of phrase happened to appeal to me more somehow.

Cheers,

T

our man type
type thought
typesights
typevision
the font imagination
the typeface imagination
type thinking
type world

Is it too late to suggest:

Type: AB positive
Blogletter
Leadfoot

?

Phinney’s Adventures in the Kernacular

Thomas-
“FONTAINHEAD”
DB~

To a T
—
No Kerning Necessary
—
Just my type
—
SemiBold
—
Into the black
—
black on white
—
white on black
—
point by point
—
live without a bezier

hmm. i really like Postscript

FINAL TITLE: Typblography, the Phinneyus Blogg

Thomas “my other car is a sans serif” Phinney is Adobe’s Program Manager for Fonts & Core Technologies. Typblography, the Phinney-us Blogg contains his musings on the technical, business, historical and design aspects of type/fonts and their technologies, including OpenType and SING.

* * * * *

This just shows how indecisive I can be when confronted with many good choices. So we have three winners: Hrant Papazian (Phinney-us Blogg), Will “superkhy” (my other car is a sans serif) and Jason Dewinetz (typblography). I wasn’t planning on three first prizes, but in a spirit of justice and generosity, that’s what we’re doing.

Regrets to Paul Dwyer who also came up with some other riffs on “typblography,” but Jason did it first, and his was the version I went with (keeping the “P” in there).

Interestingly, two of the three winners are based in Canada. I swear I didn’t look at where they were from until I was notifying them to get them their prizes. :)

Note also that I have sent email to all three prize winners. If you’re one of the winners, and didn’t get it, check your spam filters or just write me directly.

Thanks,

T

Thomas,

I can’t wait to read the blogg. Please post a link when it goes live.

Good luck!

Congrats to the winners!

Numerous great entries. What a creative group.

Paul Dwyer

Yay! And very generous of you to reward THREE of us.

Hmmm, now onto the highly pleasant choice...

hhp

I feel almost as though I cheated:

Thomas is making a new site about type stuff, it’s going to be a blog. Um, well, “typblography”?

Yes? Really? Great.

And a little something Adobe in return? Terrific.

ps. Is it just coincidence that both Hrant and I have pseudo-intense (look how mean we are) eye/brow graphics for our thumbnails?

i’m too late as usual.

TYPICAL

magnus

Except I’m not Canadian. Shucks.

hhp

how about “dots, pixels and mud bricks”?

edit: bah me too!

Conblogulations!

“Is it just coincidence that both Hrant and I have pseudo-intense (look how mean we are) eye/brow graphics for our thumbnails?”

Nahh, it was just the 2 Pulp Fiction guys whom you hired to “influence” the vote :-)

Congrats to all the winners!

ChrisL

Congrats to the triumvirate,
and looking forward to blogful inspirations, Phinney!

Er, what about “Atypical”?

That’s perfect for the next time ATypI does its conference in CALifornia.

hhp

> That’s perfect for the next time ATypI does its conference in CALifornia.

When?

Dunno - I’m just planning ahead. Yeah, that’s pretty atypical too.

hhp

archiType or archeType

typeFace

typeSpace

good luck.... JoshM

’Opening of the Field’

as a lover of Projective Verse or composition by field...i recommend this title. It is of course also the name of a paper by Charles Olson

Phresh Print by Phinney
House of Type
Type Lounge
Typecast
Typecasting

Congratulations to the winners —

It seems we can’t stop coming up with names, though. Have we all caught the Inphinitum Blog Bug?

That was a fun read. Can we do it again?

Kristina.

itype

Rodrigue Planck

The Truth shall set you free

Sans Typos.

Too late but here it is anyway...

USS Notanic

:-P

“Fontastic”

Where is the Thomas Phinney’s blog???

here http://blogs.adobe.com/typblography/

This calls for a Pepsi.

Congratulations, Thomas.

So which font families/applicaitons did the winners request?

I got InDesign CS2 (and Garamond SuperDuper when I registered it).
Profuse public thanks to Thomas (profuse private thanks having
been already delivered back when).

hhp

Ditto (ditto). Ditto (ditto).

[Seriously Hrant, this is getting ridiculous. I swear, I’m going to start disagreeing with you, as soon as you come up with something I don’t agree with. I look forward to squaring off should the occasion present itself.]

I love that Thomas was so apologetic for how long it might take to get the order through, and 3 days later the box arrived at my door. I mean, come on, three days?! What, do I look like I can afford to sit around waiting day after day after day for free Adobe stuff?!

Shshshsh! You think we want people to know we’re clones?!

hhp

My God, those eyebrows DO match!

You haven’t ever seen Jason and Hrant in the same place, either, have you? You think that’s a coincidence? In fact, Hrant made up the whole Jason identity so that he could win two prizes! You can never say he isn’t clever....

As for the shipping, it ended up being very fast because Adobe paid for the stuff and it went through corporate purchasing instead of employee purchasing. Trust me, you could have been waiting a month or more!

Hope folks enjoy the blog,

T

http://blogs.adobe.com/typblography

word.

bah... didn’t realize you chose a name. I’m new(b)...

hehe, you found nice domain, i like it, vise versa from me.
i choosed those Krebner
Findyourblog
Fianaforum