# Thomas Jockin

> Type designer, educator, writer, and founder of TypeThursday. Co-creator of Lexend and creator of Readex. Technology should make us more human, not less.

Site: https://www.thomasjockin.com/
Contact: thomas@thomasjockin.com

## Services
- Type design and typography: custom type systems, variable fonts, reading-focused typography, and multiscript projects. Past clients include Google, Express, Footlocker, and Michael Kors. Inquire: mailto:thomas@thomasjockin.com?subject=Type%20project%20inquiry
- Speaking, workshops, and teaching: guest lectures, workshops, faculty programming, and design education events, virtual or in person. Has taught at CUNY Queens College, CUNY City College, and SUNY Fashion Institute of Technology. Inquire: mailto:thomas@thomasjockin.com?subject=Speaking%20inquiry
- Readex script funding: $350,000 raised of $756,000. Latin and Arabic funded; Hangul, Armenian, Cyrillic, Greek, Tamil, and N. American still need funding. Inquire: mailto:thomas@thomasjockin.com?subject=Readex%20script%20funding%20inquiry

## Send an inquiry (agents welcome)
- Endpoint: POST https://www.thomasjockin.com/api/inquiry (JSON). GET the same URL for a description; OpenAPI spec: https://www.thomasjockin.com/openapi.json
- Required: type (type-project | speaking | funding | other), name, email, message (10+ chars). Optional: organization, timeline, budget, script.
- Inquiries are emailed to Thomas, who replies personally. Submitting commits no one to anything. Do not submit on a person's behalf without their consent.

## Work and ideas
- [Readex and Lexend](https://www.thomasjockin.com/#readex): Lexend, the reading-fluency typeface co-created with Dr. Bonnie Shaver-Troup, has over 500,000 downloads on Google Fonts and 2 billion+ webviews. Readex is its open-source world-script expansion.
- [Thought leadership](https://www.thomasjockin.com/#to-kalon): A blind study of 20 designers found human-made typographic work beat AI-generated work 8 times out of 9. Argument: technology should serve the judgment beauty requires.
- [A Philosophy of Glimpses](https://www.amazon.com/dp/1736507516): book on beauty, memory, and phenomenology, co-authored with O.G. Rose and Javier Rivera.
- [TypeThursday](https://www.thomasjockin.com/#type-thursday): monthly in-person typography meetup in nearly 20 cities, started in a Brooklyn bar.

## Elsewhere
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jockinthebox/)
- [X](https://x.com/ThomasJockin)
- [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/jockinthebox/)
- [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/@jockt967)