Staff

Isao Suzuki

Director/Type Director

He worked as a type designer at Adobe Systems Japan from 1993 to 2000. In 2001, he founded Type Project Inc. and announced the AXIS Font. He directed the design of the fonts such as TP Sky, TP Mincho, TP Gothic, Jun Mincho, and Kinshachi Font. He is working on the new generation of the Corporate Font, City Font, and Seasonal Font projects. Lecturer at Musashino Art University, Tama Art University, and Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music.

Kenji Yazaki

Type Designer

He joined Type Project in 2014, and designed mainly the Latin part of TP Sky and others.

Tomoko Ishikawa

Type Designer

Born in Tokyo and graduated from Musashino Art University of Visual Communication Design. She worked for developing Japanese fonts of AXIS Round and TP Sky.

Hikaru Aikawa

Type Designer

She joined Type Project in 2017 and designed Japanese part of Kinshachi Font Hime, Jun Mincho, and others.

Kengo Takahashi

Type Designer

Born in 1985 in Okayama city and graduated from Tama Art University of Graphic Design. He joined Type Project in 2018. Before that he worked at advertising creating company. He is working for developing new Japanese font.

Yui Yoshitomi

Type Designer

Graduated from Musashino Art University of Visual Communication Design. Master of Arts in Typeface Design, University of Reading, UK. After working at an overseas type foundry, she joined Type Project in 2020. She is working for Latin font design.

Yasuhi Naoi

Type Engineer

He joined Type Project in 2014, taking responsibility for font production, quality assurance and more.

Takashi Kita

Type Engineer

Born in Kumamoto. He majored in differential geometry/real manifold at university. After working as a UI designer, he joined Type Project in 2020. He is working on software development and engineering support for font development.

Minako Sumi

Manager

Born in Hokkaido. She is responsible for project management, corporate contracts, public relations and more.

Yuriko Kosaka

Assistant Manager

She joined Type Project in 2025. Before that, she worked at Musashino Art University of Visual Communication Design as a staff member. She is working on schedule management and user communication.