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Kenneth Kwok

Based in Hong Kong, Kenneth Kwok is the Chief Designer and Director of The Creative Calligraphic Centre. He has been working on type design, particularly ideographic design from ca. 1970 until now. He designed many successful typefaces for Sha-Ken and Monotype Imaging such as ZhongYi, Elle, Ellan, and StiffHei.

Speaker at ATypI 2012 in Hong Kong: Ideographic type design and production. In this talk, he explained the following claim: Some of the many challenges of designing and producing a CJK ideographic font is to maintain consistency and tranquility. His talk was forceful and convincing.

His Chinese typeface M Zhi Hei (Monotype) won an award at TDC 2014. His Chinese fonts M Ellan Light (Monotype) and M Gentle (Monotype) won an award in the TDC 2015 Type Design competition.

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