Shoko Mugikura
@shokojaf.bsky.social
🇯🇵→🇬🇧→🇩🇪 Typographer and occasional type designer running Just Another Foundry (@justanotherfoundry.bsky.social) with @TimAhrens
Happy to be giving a talk on rounded sans in Japanese environmental typography once again – this time online for the Sign Design Society UK! 📅 15 October 🕐 1–2 pm UK time Details & registration: signdesignsociety.co.uk/event/rounde... 📷 My talk at Fontstand Conference. Photos by Norman Posselt
If you would like to be notified when the reprint becomes available, please send an email to the address listed on the book’s website: justanotherfoundry.com/size-specifi...
Just Another Foundry – Size-specific adjustments to type designs
The aim of this book is to determine principles underlying the design of optical sizes, with a view to giving useful advice to practitioners who wish to design such sizes for their own fonts.
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Shoko Mugikura@shokojaf.bsky.social · 5mo ago📣 News from JAF! “Size-specific Adjustments to Type Designs” is coming back. After two years out of print, we are preparing a reprint, planned for later in 2026. Stay tuned for updates!
📣 News from JAF! “Size-specific Adjustments to Type Designs” is coming back. After two years out of print, we are preparing a reprint, planned for later in 2026. Stay tuned for updates!
We (Just Another Foundry) are happy to have played a small part – consulting on the design of the Latin characters – in this beautiful Japanese type family from @iwata_font: Iwata Tsuzuri, a new handwritten Japanese typeface. www.iwatafont.co.jp/tsuzuri/
Two excellent Japanese type designers, Ikumi Honda and Yui Yoshitomi, are hosting a lecture and workshop this May. Opportunities like this are quite rare – dedicated type designers in Japan don’t often have time to teach beginners – so don’t miss this chance.
Words of Type
Words of Type Events offer a series of lectures and workshops with various topics about typography and typeface design, in English and other languages, hosted on the WoT community.
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Words of Type@wordsoftype.com · 7mo agoNEXT MONTH: lecture on Japanese Writing System: History and Type Design with Ikumi Honda (Iwata Fonts) and Yui Yoshitomi (Type Project) More info & tickets https:// wordsoftype.com/ #typedesign #typography #typeface #fonts #japanese #kanji #hiragana #katakana
On Fontstand News, Mikina Dimunová reflects on the Fontstand Conference that took place a little more than a week ago in Berlin. For those of you who couldn’t make it, hopefully this will give you a feel for the presentations. fontstand.com/news/design-...
Two excellent Japanese type designers, Ikumi Honda and Yui Yoshitomi, are hosting a lecture and workshop this May. Opportunities like this are quite rare – dedicated type designers in Japan don’t often have time to teach beginners – so don’t miss this chance.
Words of Type
Words of Type Events offer a series of lectures and workshops with various topics about typography and typeface design, in English and other languages, hosted on the WoT community.
wordsoftype.com
Words of Type@wordsoftype.com · 7mo agoNEXT MONTH: lecture on Japanese Writing System: History and Type Design with Ikumi Honda (Iwata Fonts) and Yui Yoshitomi (Type Project) More info & tickets https:// wordsoftype.com/ #typedesign #typography #typeface #fonts #japanese #kanji #hiragana #katakana
Last year, we conducted an independent survey focused on font use and licensing. More than 1,300 respondents participated from a wide community of designers and other font users, and we have now published a short article plus the full survey results on Fontstand News: fontstand.com/news/design-...
What font users actually want: findings from Fontstand 2025 survey
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19 tickets left for the Fontstand Conference in Berlin. If you’ve been on the fence — this is the nudge. 👉 fontstand.com/conference
Fontstand International Typography Conference 2026, Berlin, Germany
Fontstand’s sixth annual Typography Conference is coming to Berlin! Join world-class type designers and typographers from around the world for a packed two...
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Fans of round sans around the world – come join my talk! I’ll be sharing rich visuals and taking a closer look at the details, history, and cultural context of round sans in Japan. 😃🇯🇵
Fontstand@fontstand.com · 9mo agoSpeaker for the #fontstandcon2026 : Co-founder of Just Another Foundry, Shoko Mugikura will examine why rounded sans carries authority in Japan, tracing its roots in calligraphy, signage, and multiscript typography — and why it means something very different outside Japan. fontstand.com/conference
New lecture coming soon! Japanese Writing System: History and Type Design, with Ikumi Honda (Iwata Corporation) and Yui Yoshitomi (Type Project) May 2, 2026 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM CEST Online, in English 20€ More info & tickets at wordsoftype.com
Next workshop! Introduction to Japanese Type Design with Ikumi Honda (Iwata Corporation) and Yui Yoshitomi (Type Project) 3-sessions workshop May 9, 16, and 23, 2026 9:00 am to 1:00 pm CEST Online, in English 330€ This workshop is limited to 10 participants max. 🎟️ at wordsoftype.com
20 years after its first release, JAF Lapture gets updated and expanded! The new version includes Black and Condensed styles, as well as Cyrillics. justanotherfoundry.com/lapture
Just Another Foundry – JAF Lapture
JAF Lapture is based on the Leipziger Antiqua typeface, originally designed by Albert Kapr and released in 1971 by the East German foundry Typoart. It has distinctive characteristics that combine elem...
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Exactly 7 weeks remain until the annual Fontstand International Typography Conference in The Hague. Don’t miss your chance to connect with world-class type designers and typographers! Check out the schedule and register now at fontstand.com/conference/2.... #fontstandcon2025
