Thomas Rickner
Sr. Director Typography Solutions at Monotype
Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolThomas Rickner is a veteran typographer and technical leader with decades of hands-on experience shaping digital type—from hand-editing bitmaps in the 1980s to helping build Apple’s original TrueType system and later co-founding Ascender. Now Sr. Director of Typography Solutions at Monotype, he leads font production, library management and complex typographic engineering for global brands and platforms. His rare combination of creative type design and deep low-level font engineering includes expertise in TrueType hinting, OpenType layout, and tooling automation (FontLab Python macros). An RIT-trained typographer with an executive MBA, he pairs historical knowledge of letterforms with product and organizational leadership. Notably, he invented new hinting methods for compressed Asian fonts and has repeatedly bridged research, tooling and commercial delivery across major clients like Microsoft, Google and Apple.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Printing, Typography, B.S., Printing, Typography at Rochester Institute of TechnologyExecutive Master of Business Administration, Executive Master of Business Administration at Rochester Institute of Technology - E. Philip Saunders College of Business
Github Skills (16)
cjk8
freetype7
fonts6
coretext6
unicode5
opentype5
test-suite4
text-rendering4
arrows2
woff1
latin1
filter1
google1
ufo1
truetype1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
TrueTyper/BuffaloGals
Nov 2016 - Apr 2017
Contributions:4 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
TrueTyper/hello-world
Sep 2019 - Sep 2019
test repo
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 2 branches in 1 day
test-repo
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