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Thomas Jockin

Type designer in Brooklyn and/or Holbrook, NY, b. 1986, who studied at the Parsons School of Design and the inaugural Type@Cooper program. He lived in Portland, OR.

In 2012, he designed the large award-quality copperplate family called Garçon Grotesque.

Typefaces from 2013: Ductus (a five-style broad-nibbed calligraphic / medieval family).

In 2015, he published Azote (a multilined typeface family inspired by the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City).

In 2019, he released the free seven font family Lexend at Google Fonts, together with Bonnie Shaver-Troup. Github link. Dedicated site. Lexend now comes in subfamilies called Deca, Exa, Giga, Mega, Peta, Tera and Zetta. He writes that Lexend is empirically shown to significantly improve reading-proficiency. As prescription eyeglasses achieve proficiency for persons with short-sightedness, Lexend's families were developed using Shaver-Troup Formulations. We will eventually release all seven families as a single variable font featuring its own custom axis. Lexend is thus an implementation of Bonnie Shaver-Troup's 2000 study, in which she theorized that reading performance would improve through the use of (1) hyper expansion of character spacing [which creates a greater lag time and reduces potential crowding and masking effects], (2) expanded scaling, and (3) a sans-serif font [to reduce noise]. Lexend is indeed hyper-widely spaced. Lexend also received support from Santiago Orozco and Hector Gomez.

Additional links: CTAN link with TeX support. Github link by Brain Stone (Yannick Schinko).

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INTERNAL LINKS
Type designers ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Type scene in New York ⦿ Copperplate ⦿ Calligraphic typefaces ⦿ Type scene in Oregon ⦿ Readability & Legibility ⦿ Sites with only a few free fonts ⦿ Fonts with TEX ⦿








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