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Morisawa [Akihiko Morisawa]

Respected Japanese foundry, based in Osaka and Tokyo, est. 1924 and incorporated in 1948. Its US office is located in San Francisco. Its president and CEO is Akihiko Morisawa. Its 270 empoyees report to executice director Takeshi Morisawa (Business Planning and Development), directors Yoshitaka Nojiri, Yasushi Yamamura, and Tsunehisa Morisawa, and executive officers Haruhiko Takeuchi, Takeshi Tamura, Atsuhito Tanimura, Hiroshi Hino, Masahiro Shibukuchi, Nobuo Tomita, and Yukihisa Morisawa. The Font Development department includes Noibuhiro Irie. Japanese pages. It has the best and most extensive PostScript kanji library.

Since 2003, many of their kanji fonts are also available in OpenType format. These include A-OTF-GothicMB101Pro-Bold, A-OTF-GothicMB101Pro-Heavy, A-OTF-GothicMB101Pro-Ultra, A-OTF-Jun201Pro-Regular, A-OTF-Jun34Pro-Medium, A-OTF-Jun501Pro-Bold, A-OTF-KyokaICAPro-Light, A-OTF-KyokaICAPro-Medium, A-OTF-KyokaICAPro-Regular, A-OTF-RyuminPro-Bold, A-OTF-RyuminPro-Heavy, A-OTF-RyuminPro-Medium, A-OTF-RyuminPro-Regular, A-OTF-RyuminPro-Ultra, A-OTF-ShinGoPro-Bold, A-OTF-ShinGoPro-Heavy, A-OTF-ShinGoPro-Light, A-OTF-ShinGoPro-Medium, A-OTF-ShinGoPro-Regular, A-OTF-ShinGoPro-Ultra, A-OTF-ShinseiKaiPro-CBSK1. The PostScript collection includes these families: Ryumin, ShinGo, FutoMinA101, MidashiMinMA31, GothicMediumBBB, ShinMaruGo, GothicMB101, MidashiGoMB31, FutoGoB101, KaishoMCBK1, ShinseiKaishoCBSK1, KyokashoICA, Kanteiryu, Folk, Takahand, Jun, MainichiShinbumGothic, MainichiShinbunMincho. The font library: Symbols, A1 Mincho, Akashi, Folk Pro, Futo Go B101 Pro, Futo Min A101 Pro, Gothic BBB Pr5, Gothic BBB Pro, Gothic MB101 Pr5, Gothic MB101 Pro, Harucraft, Haruhi Gakuen, Jomin, Jun Pro, Kaisho MCBK1, Kakumin Pro, Kanteiryu, Kocho, Kumoya, Kyoukasho ICA Pro, Likurei, MainichiNewspapersG Pro, MainichiNewspapersM Pro, Maru Folk Pro, Midashi Go MB31 Pro, Midashi Min MA31 Pro, Musashino, Nachin, Outai Kaisho, Pretty Momo, Reisho 101, Ryumin Pr5, Ryumin Pro, Sei Kaisho CB1, Shin Go Min, Shin Go Pr5, Shin Go Pr6, Shin Go Pro, Shin Maru Go Pro, Shinsei Kaisho Pro, Shuei Min Pro, TakaHand, Take Std, UD Reimin Pro.

Alternate URL. Associated firms: Morisawa Bunken Inc., MTOP Co., Ltd., LIM Co., Ltd., Morisawa USA Inc., Morisawa Taiwan Inc., Morisawa Korea Inc.. Partner companies: Adobe Systems Inc. (USA), Arphic Technology Co., Ltd. (Taiwan), Sandoll Communication Inc. (Korea), The Font Bureau, Inc. (USA), Beijing Hanyi Keyin Information Technology Co., Ltd. (China).

Akihiko Morisawa was a guest speaker at ATypI 2019 in Tokyo.

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