One of my favorite stories about Jim Parkinson – when he received an unexpectedly large quarterly check from Adobe, he assumed an accounting error. Jim was conflicted, and pondered calling to ask, but decided to wait it out. When the amount was even larger in the following quarter, Jim did finally call, and found out that everything was perfectly fine – he’d received a windfall from his font Mojo shipping with Adobe Type Manager. 😎
RIP Jim, I’ll miss you.
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.
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.
Dan Burzo
Jens Kutílek