Taro Yamamoto
Taro Yamamoto received a BFA from Musashino Art University in 1983, where he majored in typography. After a stint doing type development with Morisawa, he joined Adobe in 1992. He led the design team that produced Adobe’s original Japanese typefaces, under the direction of Masahiko Kozuka. Following Kozuka's retirement, Yamamoto has been involved in the development of Adobe’s Japanese fonts, and the Pan-CJK font development project by Adobe and Google, as Senior Manager of Japanese Typography. He is also the ATypI country delegate for Japan, and President of the Society of Typography, Japan.
At HK Type technologies Taro Yamamoto will be speaking at:
- Kazuraki Thu 11 Oct 0955