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Typographer and Type Educator
About Jenny Lynn
In 2013, Jenny Lynn co-founded the Type@Cooper Summer Intensive, the first publicly accessible, full-immersion type design program in the U.S., and personally redesigned its curriculum to center craft over software, requiring students to cut metal punches and draw letterforms by hand before touching a vector tool. Her 2018 monograph 'Weight & Will' reframed optical weight as an ethical choice, arguing that a bold glyph’s visual dominance carries cultural responsibility in digital interfaces. Based in Brooklyn, she teaches at Cooper Union and consults for institutions like MoMA and The New York Times, where her work on the 2021 redesign of their classifieds section revived hot-metal spacing logic for responsive web typography. Lynn doesn’t treat type as neutral infrastructure; she treats it as civic architecture, measurable in x-height ratios, legible in editorial hierarchy, and accountable in its silences.
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- “How do you teach optical alignment when screen rendering distorts letterfit?”
- “What’s one historical typeface you’d re-cut for modern UI, and why?”
- “Can you walk me through your process for designing a new text face for long-form reading?”
- “How do you reconcile traditional punchcutting discipline with variable font workflows?”