![]() At both Mainichi and Morisawa, he initiated projects to systematize the process of typeface design and digital font production by efficiently making use of newly developed digital font production tools. He always attached importance to the relationship between typeface design and new technologies. From 1984, as type design director for Morisawa & Company, he supervised many type development projects such as the popular ShinGo typeface family. He designed some experimental and display, but his basic idea always was to create “type not just to be seen, but to be composed and read.” In the 1970s, in the transition from hot metal to digital type, he redesigned many fonts of Mainichi’s newspaper faces. This increased the need for display typefaces. In the 1960s, phototypesetters became widely available and were used especially in commercial printing. ![]() At that time, he had started working at the Mainichi newspaper, one of the leading nationwide daily newspapers in Japan, where he made hot metal text and headline typefaces. ![]() Masahiko Kozuka began making type in 1952. ![]()
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