2025 January SAFE Educational Seminar

2025 January SAFE Educational seminar

Attend this seminar to earn credits to renew your SAFE membership for 2024 and renew your CFDE certification.

Date: Time
29-January-2025 16:00 (4:00 pm) PDT
29-January-2025 19:00 (7:00 pm) EDT
29-January-2025 24:00 (00:00 ) GMT
30-January-2025 01:00 (01:00 am) SAST
30-January-2025 11:00 (11:00 am) NZST

Topic: What Document Examiners Need to Know About Fonts (& Why)

Speaker: Mr. Thomas Phinney

Thomas Phinney is a type designer and font forensics specialist. He currently also does font production for Google, and has previously done work for Adobe, Microsoft, Monotype and others. He holds four font-related patents, and has an MS in printing from RIT, specializing in fonts and typography, as well as an MBA from UC Berkeley. He is a board member (and past President, VP, secretary and treasurer) of ATypI, the international typography association.

Abstract

Identifying fonts in a questioned document can be useful when either the font usage is inconsistent in some unexpected way (possibly due to inserted or replaced text), or the font was simply not yet available as of the purported date of document. Learn about the complex release histories for Calibri and the new Microsoft Office default font, Aptos. Point size can be important when a document (or element of a document) has a legally required point size to be effective/binding. Learn why identifying the font is critical to getting an exact point size, and why you need to beware the “E” and scales on printers’ rulers. Plus a case study!