Look At The Mystery! An American Detective Is Reminiscent Of Sherlock-Bomkesh: Just as Byomkesh called himself ‘Satyanveshi’, Thomas prefers to use the nickname ‘Font Detective’ as his professional identity. His company and website are under the same name. Sometimes the direct solution of letter-centered investigations, sometimes playing the role of an experienced person in the trial and analysis of various corruption cases in the international world – the familiarity of this letter spy in the Western world is not bad at all. in pen Susnat Chowdhury
‘As you are aware, E is the most common letter in the English alphabet, and it predominates to such a marked extent that even in a short sentence one would expect to find it most often.’ No joke, the speaker is Sherlock Holmes. He penetrated the secret of symbolic writing in the story ‘The Adventure of the Dancing Men’ based on this formula of using English letters. Another example of character-based detective work can be seen in ‘Golkadham Rahasya’. There Fellu Mitty caught the criminal’s infamy from the use of fake Garamond type. But if this ‘Homs of font’ or ‘Feluda of font’ leaves the pages of the book and steps on the ground of reality, then how?
This is exactly what happened in the United States! The one who did it was a detective named Thomas Finney. A resident of Portland. Now in his fifties. Just as Byomkesh called himself a ‘Satyanveshi’, Thomas prefers to use the nickname ‘Font Detective’ as a professional identity. He has a company and website under the same name. Sometimes the direct solution of letter-centered investigations, sometimes playing the role of an experienced person in the trial and analysis of various corruption cases in the international world – the familiarity of this letter spy in the western world is not bad at all. Several courts in England, America, and Canada have also recognized him as an expert on font-related matters. He started working on fonts on his own initiative more than two decades ago. The first mystery was solved in 1999. Caught a fake will. Gradually the scope of work as a font detective gets bigger. As his demands have increased in the last four-five years, the pressure of investigation has reached a peak.
Finney has worked on issues such as Google, Microsoft, and Oxford University Press, from resolving disputes over copyright infringement of Justin Timberlake’s song ‘Damn Girl. By 2016, he was also an expert in the Panama corruption investigation, which ended in chaos. The story is no less exciting than a mystery-adventure novel! The mattress of Nawaz Sharif’s government in Pakistan was practically overturned due to this incident. An important document signed by Nawaz’s daughter Maryam turns out to be a forgery. The signed paper, dated February 2, 2006, was written in ‘Calibri font; But Calibri was released on January 31, 2007. The journey of this font started with ‘Microsoft Office 2007’. Therefore, previously signed documents could not be written using Calibri. It did not have to gain special momentum to prove that the well-crafted document was completely fake, with an old date. Nawaz and several members of his family were eventually arrested.
Finney has handled cases with Persian letters in the past, mainly Roman letters like English or French. Some mastery of Greek and Cyrillic typography. Indian languages such as Dravidian or Bengali-Hindi, little effort has been made in the past to learn their orthography, but it has not yet been possible to break through the web of mystery that has been approaching based on those letters. Font Detective feels free to take the opinion of skilled type designers and experts in the Indic script such as Fiona Ross, Mahendra Patel, or Satya Rajpurohit if necessary in such cases. He is not shy about admitting personal limitations to clearly proclaim his skill in all aspects of the font.
His earnings started at a very young age. In the middle of the eighties of the last century. Thomas Feeney was then an average DTP operator. In the first era of desktop publishing, he used to compose various articles on the computer. It was at that time that he became interested in letters. He gradually focused more on that. Later he also received formal training in printing, graphic art, and typography. He has been associated with companies like ‘Adobe’, ‘And FontLab’ for a long time. Made multiple Roman typefaces. He also holds four typeface patents. However, over time, his identity as a font detective has become prominent.
In our daily life, this object is always and everywhere spread almost – letters. small, big Curved, straight. Colored, black. How diverse his form, how extensive his use! However, regardless of the rich and the poor, literate and illiterate, its position is so normal in the life of the common man at every moment that in most cases we do not realize its importance separately. Even beyond the written form of language, not everyone can consciously identify its abstract place of existence. But it affects our subconscious constantly, from behind a transparent screen. Thomas Finney’s illustrations somehow remind us of the importance of the abstraction of type even in this object-centered world. Asks to look at it.
