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Masataka Hattori

Masataka Hattori received his degree in graphic design from Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music in 1994. He joined Adobe the same year, and is currently a Senior Designer of Japanese Typography. Masataka was a member of the team that designed and developed the first Adobe Originals Japanese typefaces such as Kozuka Mincho and Kozuka Gothic. He also contributed to various font development projects, such as Kazuraki, the world's first fully-proportional OpenType Japanese font. He had a hand in the production of and creation of ideographs (kanjis) for the Source Han Sans fonts released in 2014 by Adobe and Google for Japanese, Chinese and Korean.

In 2017, Hattori contributed to Ten Mincho, a set of traditional Mincho-style fonts that feature a full set of Latin glyphs and several color (SVG) emojis.

In 2018, Ken Lunde and Masataka Hattori co-designed Soukou Mincho, which is free at Fontsquirrel.

Speaker at ATypI 2012 in Hong Kong, ATypI 2014 in Barcelona (on Designing a Large Multilingual Typeface)ATypI 2019 in Tokyo (on Developing a Concept CJK Variable Font Based on Source Han Sans).

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