January, 2022 - Type Project Staff Blog

22.01.31SeriesRecommended Book / From TP’s Stack

From TP’s Stack: “It’s Still Railroad Letters”

Today, I would like to introduce “It’s Still Railroad Letters: An Expanding World from Station Name Signs,” written by Akiko Nakanishi. I was curious to know how typefaces used in informatio…

22.01.24SeriesDevelopment Story / TP Sky Classic Latin Development Story

TP Sky Classic Latin Development Story 01: “Features of TP Sky Classic”

TP Sky Classic combines a compact and clear sans-serif typeface and proper classical block style. As Latin is included in the Japanese, it was intentionally concentrated only on creating the…

22.01.17SeriesLatin Type Design / Latin Italic

Latin Italic 06: “Inclination of Italic 2”

In the previous article of this series “Inclination of Italic 1,” how much the angle of italic is inclined in comparison between regular and italic is mentioned. In this article, I would lik…

22.01.11SeriesJapanese Type Design / Designing Kanji, Hiragana, and Katakana

Designing Kanji, Hiragana, and Katakana 03: “Thickness”

As an important point for creating the thick weight in particular, there is thickness adjustment for strokes. Even when all strokes of kanji, hiragana, and katakana are numerically set at th…