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Akira Kobayashi
Akira Kobayashi

 

Akira Kobayashi is a very unusual breed of type designer. Although he lives in his native Japan, Kobayashi excels at designing Latin-based alphabets. He has created fonts for Adobe, FontFont, Linotype and ITC.

Pictured above, left to right: ITC Magnifico; FF Clifford used in the February 2004 issue of Reason magazine; and Kobayashi.

 

 
Commercial Type Designs

FF Acanthus 1998
Calcite Pro 2000
FF Clifford 1999
Linotype Conrad 1999
ITC Japanese Garden
     Ornaments
1998
TX Lithium 2001
ITC Luna 1998
ITC Magnifico 1999
ITC Scarborough 1998
ITC Seven Treasures 1998
TX Signal Signifier 2002
ITC Silvermoon 1998
Skid Row 1990
ITC Vineyard 1999
ITC Woodland 1997

Type Designs With Zapf

Aldus Nova 2005
Optima Nova 2003
Palatino Nova 2005
Palatino Sans 2006
Zapfino Extra 2003

Type Designs With Frutiger

Avenir Next 2003
Frutiger Serif 2008


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