Speaker details
Taro Yamamoto
Manager Adobe Systems | Japan
Taro Yamamoto received a BFA from Musashino Art University in 1983, where he studied the history and art of typography. After a stint doing type development with Morisawa, he joined Adobe in 1992 as Manager of Japanese Typography. In addition to management and engineering tasks, he led the design team that produced Adobe’s original Japanese typefaces, including Kozuka Mincho and Kozuka Gothic, under the artistic direction of Masahiko Kozuka. He has also written a book on design (“Representation or Expression: a Dialogue on Design”) and an article on P.S. Fournier that appeared in “An Encyclopaedic Collection of Typefaces.” Yamamoto is also the ATypI country delegate for Japan. He is also President of the Society of Typography, Japan formed in August 2005. In 2008, he was awarded the 1st Motogi Shozo Prize by the Society of Typography, for his paper on the standardization of type body sizes.
Presentation details
Japanese using InDesign and OpenType
Friday 1 October | 15:30 – 17:00
Location: A-3 (Archa Room 3)
Presentation | Theme: Typographic Babylon | Duration: 90 minutes
This talk covers the aspect of high-quality Japanese typography, including: What scripts and glyphs are included in a Japanese font; Adobe-Japan1-x glyph sets; KozMin and KozGo; Switching kana and roman glyphs included in a Japanese font; kana sub-set fonts; OpenType kana fonts; “Ryo”; Using the Composite Font Utility; Future expansion and improvements in Japanese kana typefaces; True proportional kana; Ligatures, contextual ligatures using OpenType features; Calligraphic types in Japanese; Visions of the future.