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Ren Font [Kazuo Kanai]

Ren Font is a Japanese type foundry, est. 2001 by Kazuo Kanai, who won the first Morisawa type design competition back in 1983. In 2002, he also started Font Kai.

At Morisaw, he published Solution Min-Sora, Solution Min-Moon, Musashino and Moaria.

At Dai Nippon Pr iting, he designed Shuetai.

His Type Bank fonts include TB Regular Script, Hon Mincho no Shingana, Fine Mincho and Floren. At Font Kai, his fonts include Gothis, Luna, Pickles and Sunikku. In 2021, he released the casual typeface WaonPro, which covers Japanese (including kanji) and Latin. The award-winning Waon was originally designed in 2005 and took two years to complete. Kanai writes: Each of the characters (kanji, hiragana, katakana, Latin letters, symbols, punctuation, application letters, and numbers) is designed to have musical characteristics, and the characteristics of each are harmonized perfectly. Waon means harmony.

In 2021, he designed the casual Latin / Greek / Cyrillic typeface Amabile.

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