Monotype's original Japanese font "Tazugane® Kaku Gothic", which is provided by Monotype LETS, won the 2018 Good Design Award.

Regarding the winning of the Good Design Award, it will be exhibited on the official website and will be exhibited at the award exhibition "GOOD DESIGN EXHBITION 2018" held in Tokyo Midtown from October 31, 2018.

"Tazugane ® Kaku Gothic" can be used with the annual license service "Monotype LETS" provided by Fontworks.

​Click here for details on the Japanese typeface "Tazugane R Kaku Gothic" developed by Monotype.

(Trademark: Tazugane Gothic is a trademark of Monotype Imaging Inc. and may be registered in certain other jurisdictions.)

About Tazugane® Square Gothic

「たづがね®角ゴシック」はMonotype初の日本語オリジナルフォントで、世界的に評価の高いMonotypeの欧文書体Neue Frutiger®に合う書体としてデザインされました。
和欧の文字が調和した「たづがね®角ゴシック」は、書籍、WEB、広告など媒体を選ばず、高い可読性を提供します。

All 10 weights (Ultra Light / Thin / Light / Book / Regular / Medium / Bold / Heavy / Black / Extra Black) of "Tazugane ® Kaku Gothic" are provided by Monotype.

"Monotype LETS" provided by Fontworks includes 4 weights of Ultra Light / Light / Bold / Black which are especially easy to use.

Auditor evaluation
A Japanese typeface optimized for Neue Frutiger, a standard European typeface. I think there are many graphic designers who just welcome you. Neue Frutiger is a highly readable typeface that is often used in sign plans for public facilities overseas. If a Japanese typeface designed according to that typeface is adopted, it is expected to be adopted for user interfaces and sign plans that will require more global communication in the future. In particular, the fact that the balance between the size of Japanese and the alphabet is carefully adjusted is wonderful, and it should solve the problems that graphic designers have struggled with so far. (From Good Design Award official page)
What is the Good Design Award?

The Good Design Award aims to lead our lives to industry and society as a whole by enriching our lives by selecting and awarding "good design" from the events that are being developed. Is a “comprehensive design recommendation system” sponsored by the Japan Institute of Design Promotion.
The mother of this was the Good Design Product Selection System (commonly known as the G mark system), which was established by the Ministry of International Trade and Industry (now the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry) in 1957, and has been implemented for about 60 years since then. It covers all areas of design, with approximately 1,200 awards each year and approximately 44,000 in 60 years. In addition, it is permitted to put a "G mark" on the design that won the Good Design Award. The "G mark" has continued to play its role as an indicator of "good design" for more than half a century since its establishment.

Good Design Award official website: http://www.g-mark.org