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Taro Yamamoto

Taro Yamamoto (b. 1961, Kyoto) received a BFA from Musashino Art University in 1983, where he studied the history and art of typography. After a brief period doing type development with Morisawa, he joined Adobe in 1992 as Manager of Japanese Typography. In addition to management and engineering tasks, he led the design team that produced Adobe's original Japanese typefaces, including Kozuka Mincho and Kozuka Gothic, under the artistic direction of Masahiko Kozuka. He has also written a book on design (Representation or Expression: a Dialogue on Design) and an article on P.S. Fournier that appeared in "An Encyclopaedic Collection of Typefaces." At ATypI 2004 in Prague, he spoke about Japanese with InDesign and OpenType. Taro lives in Shanagawa-ku in Tokyo, and is Senior manager, Japanese Typography, Adobe. He is Chairman of Society of Typography, Japan. In 2008, he was awarded the 1st Motogi Shozo Prize by the Society of Typography, for his paper on the standardization of type body sizes. Following Kozuka's retirement, Yamamoto has been involved in the development of Adobe's Japanese fonts, and the Pan-CJK font development project by Adobe and Google, as Senior Manager of Japanese Typography.

His talk at ATypI 2014 in Barcelona was entitled Designing a Large Multilingual Typeface. Speaker at ATypI 2017 Montreal. Speaker at ATypI 2019 in Tokyo on two post-war typographers and book designers in Japan, Etsushi Kiyohara and Helmut Schmid.

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