Typography for Designers: Create Fonts for the Marketplace

Set Up Your Intellectual Property for Success

A course by Thomas Jockin , Typeface Designer

100% positive reviews (16)

1,161 students

Audio: English

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About the video: Set Up Your Intellectual Property for Success

Overview

“In this lesson, I will share some general principles of intellectual property for speculative font design.”

In this video lesson Thomas Jockin addresses the topic: Set Up Your Intellectual Property for Success, 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

“Set Up Your Intellectual Property for Success Last lesson we went over how to build a prototype font and get feedback on that font. This lesson, I’ll go over some basic overviews of intellectual property rights, otherwise known as IP rights for fonts. As you might be working with a client on your brief, it's important to take a second to go over intellectual property rights for fonts. Before we begin, I want to clarify that I'm not a lawyer. This is not legal advice. This is my personal perspective and approach towards intellectual property rights. I encourage you to seek legal advice if ne...”

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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.