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Yokokaku [Yoshihide Okazawa]

Yokokaku is the Japanese foundry of Yoshihide Okazawa located in Kanagawa. Typecache link.

His Japanese typefaces include Dot-no-ji, Kodomonoji, Douronoji, Shuei-MaruGothic, Hiragino UD Marugo, Hiragino UD Kakugo [Hiragino is the default Mac OS font for Japanese], Yu-tsuki Syogo Kana, Yu-tsuki Midashi Mincho, Yu-tsuki Syogou Gothic Kana, Hiragino Maru Gothic.

Speaker at ATypI 2012 in Hong Kong: The new form of "Kana character" written in the horizontal direction.

He received an Honorable Mention in the kanji category for Tgk02 in 2016 at the Morisawa Type Design Competition 2016.

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