Hello, I’m Tim Brown. I live and work in New York State’s beautiful Hudson Valley with my wife and college sweetheart Eileen, our three daughters, and our dogs.
I’m a designer, author, speaker, and maker of tools. My special interest is typography, a fancy word that means using fonts.
Since 2003, I have been designing websites and practicing typography. I try to share what I learn.
As Head of Typography at Adobe, I help people find, get, organize, and use fonts. I think deeply about the role of typography in design applications, advise our partners, make tools, and help people practice.
I wrote Flexible Typesetting, a book about how to make websites and apps look better, and how the web has changed typography. I also speak at conferences about how to practice, and how good typography is good for business.
Nice Web Type was my Graphic Design BFA thesis (SUNY New Paltz), and later a website that I used when web fonts were relatively new. Now it’s a little Slack full of web typography nerds.
I love my family, and I spend a lot of time thinking about how to make the most of our time together. I like to play and invent games, especially with my kids. I try to learn new things.
I’m a volunteer firefighter, and here’s why. I hope to be a more responsible citizen at some point.
Every few months I set personal goals. I like waking up early, and I make a pressure calendar if I feel overwhelmed. I try to focus, but it’s hard.
It’s my privilege to have good friends, to have had good teachers, and to have been raised in a loving family in a free country. I profoundly appreciate it.
This big word adds a level of scale to this composition, and that’s why it’s here. I’m trying out some of what I’m reading in The Nature of Order. The font is Bungee, by DJR.
I’m not sure why it looks messed up in browsers other than Safari. Here’s a CodePen that isolates the code I’m using.
Hmm. Having trouble publishing a note. Let’s see if a thought still works.
Nice. My iOS publishing setup still works. All I had to do was update my callback key in Working Copy. Not sure why that changed, but it has been a while.
Wondering if my iOS publishing setup still works.
Looking for a prototyper to join my team at Adobe and work on advanced typography concepts.
Set up my Polywork timeline a while ago. Gonna do more with it.
Azlen Elza has been doing some super creative stuff lately. I enjoy following on Twitter.
Tried out Hey World. Fun. 😄
What can white people do for Black Americans? Feel miserable. Listen and understand how we have treated Black people.