Name: Akira Kobayashi

Height: 5'10"

Date of Birth: 3 November , 1938

Birthplace: Tokyo, Japan

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The Japanese type designer Akira Kobayashi was born in 1960. He studied at the Musashino Art University in Tokyo from 1979 to 1983, and six years later followed this up with a calligraphy course at the London College of Printing. His first work experience in type design was at Sha-Ken Co., Ltd., a manufacturer of phototypesetting machines, where he was employed from 1983 to 1989. This was followed by three years at Jiyu-Kobo, Ltd. where he designed and digitized the Japanese font Hiragino Mincho for Dainippon Screen Co., Ltd. He also designed the six-weight Latin variation Hiragino Roman. From 1993 to 1997 Kobayashi worked at TypeBank Co., Ltd. where he designed Latin alphabets to accompany all 17 of TypeBank's digital Japanese fonts.

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