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Thomas Jockin and Bonnie Shaver-Troup and Héctor Gómez

Thomas Jockin is credited on twelve families in the library. The first was added in 2011 and the latest in 2021. By class: ten sans serifs, one handwriting face, one monospaced family. Eleven are variable fonts. Bonnie Shaver-Troup shares the credit on 9 families of them, so both names lead to this page. Héctor Gómez shares the credit on 9 families of them, so both names lead to this page. The most frequent co-credit is Santiago Orozco, on 9 families.

The familiesIn order of addition, each name set in its own outlines

Amatic SCHandwriting · 2011 · weights 400–700 (2)

OverpassSans serif · 2016 · weights 100–900

Overpass MonoMonospace · 2016 · weights 300–700

Lexend DecaSans serif · 2019 · weights 100–900

Lexend ExaSans serif · 2019 · weights 100–900

Lexend GigaSans serif · 2019 · weights 100–900

Lexend MegaSans serif · 2019 · weights 100–900

Lexend PetaSans serif · 2019 · weights 100–900

Lexend TeraSans serif · 2019 · weights 100–900

Lexend ZettaSans serif · 2019 · weights 100–900

LexendSans serif · 2021 · weights 100–900

Readex ProSans serif · 2021 · weights 160–700

Range of the work

The lowercase runs from Overpass, the shortest at 511 units per 1,000 em, to Readex Pro at 525. In width, Amatic SC is the narrowest (315) and Lexend Zetta the widest (899). Beyond Latin, the families cover five subsets: Arabic, Cyrillic, Cyrillic Extended, Hebrew, Vietnamese. Measured against the medians of their own classes, nine of the eleven families with ascenders have a taller x-height, ten of all twelve set a wider lowercase and four a darker one.

Against the class medianDifferences from the median of each family’s class, per 1,000 em; ink in percentage points

Family	Class	x-height	Width	Ink	Weights	Subsets
Lexend	Sans serif	+6	+27	+7 pts	100–900	3
Lexend Deca	Sans serif	+6	+27	+7 pts	100–900	3
Lexend Exa	Sans serif	+6	+167	−1 pts	100–900	3
Lexend Giga	Sans serif	+6	+224	−3 pts	100–900	3
Lexend Mega	Sans serif	+6	+252	−4 pts	100–900	3
Lexend Peta	Sans serif	+6	+280	−5 pts	100–900	3
Lexend Tera	Sans serif	+6	+308	−6 pts	100–900	3
Lexend Zetta	Sans serif	+6	+378	−8 pts	100–900	3
Readex Pro	Sans serif	+6	+24	+7 pts	160–700	4
Overpass Mono	Monospace	−6	+16	−2 pts	300–700	5
Overpass	Sans serif	−8	−17	+1 pts	100–900 + italic	5
Amatic SC	Handwriting	no ascenders	−103	−26 pts	400–700 (2)	5