Type Designers who Cross Borders – The production process of multilingual fonts and how to work with an eye on the world

The augmented and revised edition of IDEA issue 392, featuring “Type Design Now,” introduces independent type foundries and type designers active worldwide.

This edition includes new interviews with four groups of designers and content on basic font knowledge, making it a must-have edition.

Respecting regional cultures while using internationally applicable design methods and communication skills, these multilingual font designers collaborate with global companies, even as individual designers. This book features font samples and interviews with 14 independent type designers/foundries based outside the Latin alphabet regions, such as Europe, the Middle East, and Asia, introducing globally viable ideas, methods, and design philosophies.

The designers’ glocal perspectives, thought processes, and production methods are filled with insights and ideas useful beyond design.

■Table of Contents
Introduction
IDEA Issue 392 Feature “Type Design Now: Practices of Independent Type Foundries” – Introduction –

【Chapter 1】Practices of Independent Type Foundries
・Hypertype/Minju Ham
・Kazuhiro Yamada/nipponia
・Detail Type Foundry/Makoto Kamimura + Sachi Kamimura
・Śirin ― Kwan/Sirin Gunkroy
・Trilingua Design/Adonian Chan
・Naïma Ben Ayed Bureau/Naïma Ben Ayed
・Briefcase Type Foundry/Tomas Brousil, Petra Dočekalová, Radek Sidun
・justfont
・debakir/Kajak Apelian
・Radim Pesko/RP Digital Type Foundry
・Grilli Type
・NaN
・Kowloon Type/Julius Hui
・Maliikātype/Shue Tien Men

【Chapter 2】Text Edition: Type Design Now
・Roundtable: Our Scene in Type Design: From the Field of Creators and Users
Speakers: Makoto Kamimura, Naoko Noguchi, Tomoyuki Arima, Kazuhiro Yamada Composition: Toshinobu Nagata
・Creating Platforms to Support Creators
Interview: Travis Kochel, Lizy Gershenzon (Future Fonts)
・Current Status of Latin Typeface Design in the Digital Age
Text: Toshi Omagari
・Basic Knowledge of Typeface Design

Afterword

*Partially written in both Japanese and English