Typography for Designers: Create Fonts for the Marketplace

Historical Reference

A course by Thomas Jockin , Typeface Designer

100% positive reviews (16)

1,161 students

Audio: English

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About the video: Historical Reference

Overview

“In this lesson, I will go over the importance of history in typeface design. Typography is, in fact, a developed historical process. Let's go over some examples to portray this.”

In this video lesson Thomas Jockin addresses the topic: Historical Reference, which is part of the Domestika online course: Typography for Designers: Create Fonts for the Marketplace.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

“Historical Reference In the last lesson, we went over how to succeed in the marketplace. In this lesson, we'll go over the importance of history in typeface design. Design is a very interesting discipline as it sits between the edge of the cultural/historical dimension, as well as the technical dimension of a craft. Obviously, this whole thing about font file formats and fonts and widths and styles and character sets, there's all these technical aspects of the production of making fonts, but there is also the cultural/historic side of it too, because the nature of our shared language made v...”

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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.