Summary
Tim Brown is Head of Typography at Adobe with over a decade of experience shaping type systems, design tools, and product strategy for the web and publishing ecosystems. He blends design research, interaction design, and prototyping to drive clarity and coherence across cross-functional teams, and authored Flexible Typesetting, reflecting his interest in how fonts enable a new, flexible graphic design reality. Tim’s background spans hands-on web design and type management from higher education to Typekit, giving him deep operational and product-level insight into typography as infrastructure. Based in Kingston, NY, he’s a speaker and maker who links practical tooling with big-picture thinking about the cultural and technical shifts unfolding in digital design.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer