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Founder track record, at Adobe

The overlooked thing, made measurable, then made to matter.

Before Make It Land, I was Director of Marketing and Product for Adobe Fonts, where I treated type as a growth lever, not a finishing touch, for a platform used by millions. The numbers followed.

Nicole Miñoza, founder of Make It Land Studio

The scale was enterprise. The method is the one I bring to a brand with everything still to prove.

Conversion
+186%
Free-to-paid lift in Adobe Express, Adobe's freemium design app, from redesigned font recommendations (2025)
Adoption
1.2M+
Use of newly licensed Monotype and Microsoft fonts within weeks of launch (May 2025)
Retention
-66%
Lower monthly churn among Creative Cloud all-app subscribers who adopted Adobe Fonts (causal analysis, March 2025)
Scale
12M+
Monthly active users of Adobe Fonts, grew 3x faster than Creative Cloud year over year (December 2025)
The overlooked thing

Typography was used by everyone and measured by no one. Fonts came bundled into the subscription, treated as a finishing touch rather than a reason people converted and stayed. Millions had access. Almost no one was pointed to the right one at the right moment.

The move

Recommendations and the font menu were two separate experiences, and the old suggestions ignored what someone was actually making. I unified them into one contextual recommendation, the right font at the right moment, proved it on Adobe's font website, a lab with millions of monthly users, then shipped it inside Adobe Express by winning the alignment of teams I did not manage. Free-to-paid conversion rose 186 percent.

Why it matters here

The same playbook runs every Make It Land project: find the undervalued asset, prove its worth, and scale it through influence, until the overlooked thing becomes the reason you get chosen.

Same method, now for you.

Make It Land takes on one or two engagements at a time.