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Shotype [Kunihiko Okano] Kunihiko Okano graduated from Kyoto City University of Arts in 1995. After working as a packaging designer for about a decade, he started his design office Shotype Design in 2008 and has been providing Latin parts to Japanese type foundries. In 2011, he graduated from KABK with a Masters in the type and media program. At KABK, he created Quintet (2011), which consists of a script, a serif and an italic. He writes: The Script typeface is based on the double-pencil technique and looks double-stroke but consists of a single stroke. The Script variations have completely same letter widths and kerning values to be used as a layer font. The Serif style works for a subhead or body text. Quintet is suitable for packaging design for wines, sweets and cosmetics. The typophiles are applauding Quintet. Hrant papazian says that it is the best typeface to ever come out of KABK. Discussion on Typographica: The layered approach of Quintet gives the designer a toolbox that allows exploration of different shades within the same underlying model. Different weights are implemented in an unconventional way: instead of varying the main strokes, Quintet varies the weight of the outline. And this contour itself is maybe the most remarkable feature of the font: it is in fact broadnib-based double stroke drawn as a single, connected line. This technique itself has been practised by calligraphers for centuries, albeit in ornaments and illustrations, not the letterforms themselves. This way, Quintet gives us the pleasure to enjoy it not only once at first sight but again as we discover its clever loops and connections.. The typeface was published in 2012 by Photo-Lettering. Later he established Shotype. Besides Quintet Script and Quintet Serif, he created AXIS Latin Condensed, AXIS Latin Compressed, Hiragino UD Mincho, Hiragino UD KakuGo, Hiragino UD MaruGo, Shotype Serif, Shotype Slab, AXIS Mincho. In 2012, he won the Gold Prize in the Kanji category of the Morisawa Type Design Competition for Waran. Alcedo (2013) won an award in the Latin category at the Morisawa Type Design Competition 2014. In 2019, Matthew Carter, Shotaro Nakano, and Kunihiko Okano released Role Serif at Morisawa. Speaker at ATypI 2019 in Tokyo on the topic of Expressing Vocal Tones through Typography.	EXTERNAL LINKS Shotype MyFonts search Monotype search Fontspring search Google search INTERNAL LINKS The Finnish type scene ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Type design in Japan ⦿