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Masahiko Kozuka

Japanese type designer and type director, b. 1929. Designer of the Kozuka Mincho (serif) and Kozuka Gothic (sans serif; poster by Ray Hansen) kanji families at Adobe, available in OpenType.

Masahiko Kozuka began making type in 1952. At that time, he had started working at the Mainichi newspaper, one of the leading nationwide daily newspapers in Japan, where he made hot metal text and headline typefaces. He worked at Mainichi from 1950 until his retirement in 1984. In the 1970s, in the transition from hot metal to digital type, he redesigned many fonts of Mainichi's newspaper typefaces. From 1984 to 1992, as type design director for Morisawa&Company, he supervised many type development projects such as the popular ShinGo typeface family, which is the main typeface in use in Japan today.

From 1992 to 2001, he supervised the Adobe Originals Japanese typeface development, and designed the Kozuka Mincho and Kozuka Gothic typeface families. He served as a part-time lecturer at Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music from 1979 to 1997.

Download these OpenType fonts for free: KozGoPro-Medium, KozMinProVI-Regular, developed from 1997-2004. In 2009, the 15,713-glyph Kozuka Gothic Pro was published. see here.

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