My role in Momochidori was designing the Latin part, which now has been released as “Chidori”. There’s a bit more flexibility in drawing the Latin (since I don’t have to deal with heavy ideographs), so the axes are more extreme. In Chidori, it’s possible to go heavier, lighter, and tighter. The variable axes makes the family fun to use – I enjoyed making these samples, in which I reproduced signs seen in my surroundings.

https://fonts.adobe.com/fonts/chidori-variable

As expected, questioning something as fundamental as the Japanese baseline grid could not be achieved without the solid technical skills of Masataka Hattori and @zacharyquinnscheuren 😎🧰

And as with every typeface family, many more people were involved behind the scenes.