Typography for Designers: Create Fonts for the Marketplace

You Can Make Fonts: Now What?

A course by Thomas Jockin , Typeface Designer

100% positive reviews (16)

1,161 students

Audio: English

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About the video: You Can Make Fonts: Now What?

Overview

“Before we begin working on our final project, let me share some motivations and goals for this course.”

In this video lesson Thomas Jockin addresses the topic: You Can Make Fonts: Now What?, which is part of the Domestika online course: Typography for Designers: Create Fonts for the Marketplace. Learn a simple yet effective research method to produce unique typefaces that communicate your vision.

Partial transcription of the video

“You can Make Fonts: Now What? In the last lesson, we went over the inspirations and motivations from my journey to become a typeface designer. In this lesson, we'll start with you and your motivations and what you can gain from this unit to not only have better success as a typeface designer personally but success in the marketplace as well. You've explored or got interested in typeface design because you wanted to find your personal voice, your expression for yourself through letters and language. There's a lot of value and importance in that. There's a bit of you in any typeface you make....”

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Course summary for: Typography for Designers: Create Fonts for the Marketplace

Level: Beginner
100% positive reviews (16)
1161 students
4 units
12 lessons (1h 41m)
8 downloads

Category
Calligraphy & Typography
Software
Adobe Illustrator, Glyphs
Areas
Digital Marketing, E-commerce, Graphic Design, Typography, Typography Design

Thomas Jockin

A course by Thomas Jockin

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Typeface Designer

Thomas Jockin is a typeface designer based in Long Island, New York. He first knew he wanted to pursue typeface design after attending a typography course during his time studying at Parsons School of Design. Since then, he’s gone on to produce fonts that are available on platforms like Google Fonts and Adobe Fonts.

Thomas has worked with clients including Google, Express, Footlocker, and Michael Kors. He is also the founder of TypeThursday, a global community designed to help creatives improve their letterforms through monthly events. He hosts lectures at prestigious schools in the US and is the CEO of Readable Technologies, a tool that helps to detect dyslexia in children.