font_designer: Shuji Kikuchi

Magendfret

Magendfret font

Magendfret is a typeface that was designed very mechanically. However, it is also the optimal typeface for expressing soft warmth. Magendfret was designed by constructing a “line.” That is: it is based on the...

Knock Type

Knock Type font

KnockType is based on the concept of braille notation in Japanese. It does not support braille notation in other languages. KnockType is not necessarily aimed at facilitating “braille transcription”. It is designed so that...

Du

Du font

Du is a self hommage to Uncertain Felttip. Uncertain, made in 2008, is a typeface which reproduced faithfully the style in which I am writing on copy paper, usually using the felt-tip pen. This...

Kaybuts

Kaybuts font

Kaybuts consists of three styles: sans-serif, serif, and semi-serif, each of which includes italic typefaces. Thinner and thicker weights look best when handled in relatively large font sizes, such as eye catchers and headlines....

Puchiflit

Puchiflit font

Puchiflit is a typeface disguised as a pen script. I didn’t create this typeface by importing the letters on paper and tracing them into a computer with a draw application. So I think it’s...

Pinch Remix

Pinch Remix font

Pinch Remix is a recreated version of a typeface I made in 2007. The form hasn’t changed at all, but I composed the family by increasing the number of weights and revising the spacing...

Oddlini

Oddlini font

Inside my head, there are a number of forms of Sans Serif typefaces, and I cannot put aside any single one of them. Even if they were in the way of the reading process,...

Beg

Beg font

Phoebus Palast

Phoebus Palast font

Kropotkin Std

Kropotkin Std font

This typeface design was influenced by the British Rail corporate type introduced in an old lettering instruction book published in Japan. Of course, the only clue to this typeface is the lettering instruction book...