Ryota Doi

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Ryota Doi Ryota Doi received his BA in design from Tokyo University of the Arts in 2013. In 2014, he graduated from the MATD program at the University of Reading. Upon earning his master's degree in 2014, he returned to Japan and began working as a type designer at Monotype Japan. Ryota's graduation typeface was Raylaw, which was specifically created for multilingula travel magazines. Raylaw has five Latin weights, and covers Greek, Cyrillic and Japanese (kanji, hiragana and katakana) as well. As a map font, it is particularly well executed, combining original elegance with legibility at small sizes. He was a member of the type design team at Monotype that created the Tazugane Gothic typeface in 2017. Designed by Akira Kobayashi, Kazuhiro Yamada and Ryota Doi of the Monotype Studio, the Tazugane Gothic typeface offers ten weights and was developed to complement Neue Frutiger. It is the first original Japanese typeface in Monotype's history. Speaker at ATypI 2019 in Tokyo on the topic of A Paradigm Shift: How Y. Nakamura's Na-ru and Go-na Influenced the Japanese Type Design Industry in the 1970s. Variable fionts published in 2022: Shorai Sans (a 10-style Latin / Japanese sans by Akira Kobayashi, Monotype Studio and Ryota Doi, designed as a companion typeface to Avenir Next), Shorai Sans Variable, Tazugane Gothic Variable, Tazugane Info Variable.	EXTERNAL LINKS Ryota Doi [Designer info] MyFonts search Monotype search Fontspring search Google search INTERNAL LINKS Type designers ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Greek/Coptic ⦿ Cyrillic type design ⦿ Type design in Japan ⦿ Variable fonts ⦿