John Collins, CTO & Foundry Support (Boston)

John Collins is Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Bitstream, where he has worked since 1986. He has developed numerous type composition and font rendering systems during his career. Today he devotes most of his time to supporting MyFonts foundries; if you sell your fonts through MyFonts, you have probably had lots of interactions with John.

Kevin Woodward, Web Product Manager (Boston)

Kevin Woodward is the creator of WhatTheFont. He developed the font-identification program as part of his degree at the University of Birmingham in England. He also wrote MyFonts’ custom font-rendering software, which is based on Bitstream’s Font Fusion and Panorama rasterizing technologies. Kevin has worked at MyFonts continuously since his graduation in 1999.

Chris Lewis, Webmaster 2.0 (Noshiro, Japan)

Chris Lewis does a little of everything, working closely with Kevin to maintain the software and hardware that run the site. He graduated in 1999 with a B.S. in Computer Science from Harvey Mudd College. Like Kevin, Chris was hired out of college and has worked at MyFonts since 1999.

Nick Sherman, Designer (Boston & New York)

Nick Sherman was hired in the summer of 2006 to begin the monster process of redesigning the MyFonts web site. After over two years of work, you’re looking at the results of that labor. He also designs and lays out two to three e-mail newsletters each month, composes regular posts on the MyFonts Blog and Twitter, as well as the occasional print ads, T-shirts, tablecloths, buttons and posters. Nick graduated in 2006 from the Massachusetts College of Art & Design, where he now teaches Typography 1.

Chris Dargue, Customer Support (Boston)

Chris Dargue has provided manufacturing, fulfillment, and customer support for Bitstream since 1991. Starting in 2005, he transitioned to the MyFonts Help Desk, making even irate customers happy with his easygoing manner and lightning-fast responses. Between them, John and Chris D answer all MyFonts customer e-mail.

Laurence Penney, Typographic Consultant (Bristol, UK)

Laurence Penney, an independent expert on the TrueType format, was part of the initial MyFonts team in 1999, designing the core structure of the extensive database of font-related information that drives MyFonts. He also wrote the quarterly In Your Face newsletter until it was taken over by Joshua Lurie-Terrell in 2007. As of 2008, Laurence has transitioned to a part-time consultant role, representing MyFonts at conferences and maintaining relationships with foundries.

Adam Twardoch, OpenType / Unicode Specialist (Berlin)

Adam Twardoch specializes in the technical details of the OpenType format, Unicode support, and international typography in general. He has worked with MyFonts part-time since 2000, designing tools to help sort out the complicated issues involved in multi-lingual typography and advanced OpenType features. Adam’s day job is Product and Marketing Manager at FontLab Ltd.

Rob Goodwin, Developer (British Columbia)

Rob Goodwin was the main programmer for Fusion Media Group when they designed the original MyFonts web site in 1999. After MyFonts went live and began selling fonts, Rob joined MyFonts full time as a developer. After a few years off as an independent web developer, he re-joined MyFonts to help implement the redesign. Rob is now an independent contractor again.

Jan Middendorp, Newsletter editor (Berlin)

Jan Middendorp is a Dutch designer and design writer working in Berlin. He has written and edited several books on graphic design and typography, including Dutch type (2004), and has worked as a consultant to the new Graphic Design Museum in the Netherlands. Jan has conducted and edited the interviews for our wildly popular Creative Characters newsletter since its inception in 2007, and is a contributor to other MyFonts publications, including the Rising Stars newsletter and the blog.

Joshua Lurie-Terrell, Blogger (Sacramento)

Joshua Lurie-Terrell is a graphic designer for the California State Legislature in Sacramento. But he is better known in the type world as co-editor (with Stephen Coles) of the online type journal Typographica. Joshua took over the quarterly In Your Face newsletter in 2007, and now writes regularly for the MyFonts Blog.