font_designer: Akira Kobayashi

SST

SST font

Designed for global branding and supporting 93 languages, the SST® typefaces blend the organic readability and controlled structure of modern sans serif designs. In combining these attributes, the SST family is understated, versatile –...

SST Arabic

SST Arabic font

Designed for global branding and supporting 93 languages, the SST® typefaces blend the organic readability and controlled structure of modern sans serif designs. In combining these attributes, the SST family is understated, versatile –...

DIN Next Shapes

DIN Next Shapes font

Sabina Chipară’s DIN Next Shapes typeface is a twist on the original German industrial classic, taking its skeleton and re-clothing it in dots, hearts, snowflakes and stars. The design offers a more approachable and...

DIN Next Decorative

DIN Next Decorative font

This four-piece family is the DIN design, but not as you know it. The famously, crisp, clean and precise typeface has been given a textured update that’s reminiscent of rusted metal, or rubber stamps....

Shorai Sans Variable

Shorai Sans Variable font

Shorai™ Sans balances the subtlety of traditional hand-drawn brushstrokes with clean, geometric outlines. An intellectual-looking sans serif, Shorai’s simplified letterforms and vast weight ranges provide creatives with a holistic branding solution…

Shorai Sans

Shorai Sans font

Shorai™ Sans balances the subtlety of traditional hand-drawn brushstrokes with clean, geometric outlines. An intellectual-looking sans serif, Shorai’s simplified letterforms and vast weight ranges provide creatives with a holistic branding solution…

Tazugane Gothic Variable

Tazugane Gothic Variable font

The first original Japanese typeface in Monotype’s history is the Tazugane Gothic typeface family. This sans serif type was designed to set a new standard for the widely used styles most familiar to Japanese...

Tazugane Info Variable

Tazugane Info Variable font

Designed for the demands of on-screen use, Akira Kobayashi and Ryota Doi’s Tazugane Info typeface is a clean-cut counterpart to Tazugane Gothic – Monotype’s first original Japanese typeface. It’s been created for horizontal setting,...

DIN Next Paneuropean

DIN Next Paneuropean font

DIN Next is a typeface family inspired by the classic industrial German engineering designs, DIN 1451 Engschrift and Mittelschrift. Akira Kobayashi began by revising these two faces-who names just mean “”condensed”” and “”regular”” before...