European font maker Monotype Imaging Inc. (hereinafter referred to as Monotype) and Fontworks have jointly created a community media, and occasionally hold online seminars to explore the possibilities of typefaces with various guests. The first session will be titled "Japanese and European Type Seminar", and will be attended by Monotype's European font designer Mr. Toshi Omagari and Fontworks Type Designers Shigenobu Fujita. Mr. Omagari gave a type seminar on "Lettering of European logos" and Mr. Fujita gave a type seminar on "Background of development of Chikushi typeface".
In the September 16, 2020 will be held in the (water) "typography for the game", European of Bandai Namco studio's lead UI artists and is Ms. Yukihiko Sanhin and Monotype Corporation Type Designers welcomed the Omagari Mr. city, video game What is the typography for, multi-Language and talk from each of viewpoints about the difficulties and challenges for the corresponding.
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Overview
| Event name | “Typography for games” Namco BANDAI Studio Lead UI artist Yukihiko Sanshin × European Type Designers Omagari City |
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| Date and time | Wednesday, September 16, 2020 18:00 – 19:30 |
| Venue | This Event is from such as personal computers and smartphones see get on the Web Event will be. The viewing URL will be announced on petatix to the applicant on the day before the Event. |
| Details | Click here for details on how to apply
*The distribution URL for viewing will be released after 18:00 on September 9 (Wednesday) at the petix Event. |
| Tuition fee | free |
| Organizer | Monotype Imaging Inc. Fontworks |
program
Yukihiko Mishina "Video Game Characters vol.1 -ACE COMBAT™ 7: SKIES UNKNOWN-"
Typography in video games plays an important role of not only "transmitting information" but "inviting to the world of works". From a UIUX artist's point of view, we will explain how to draw players into the world of games through characters and keep them awake. The multi-continue to increase in recent years Language all 12 for the corresponding Language will introduce in the center of the production example of the "ACE COMBAT ™ 7 SKIES UNKNOWN" of correspondence.
Omagari city "many were put in Latin alphabets Language corresponding"
The game multi-at time of release Language is the media be asked to support, the Language many of the plays is Latin alphabets. For European Language other than English, knowledge and selection of areas other than the basic 26 characters are required, but I would like to introduce a method of evaluating new European typefaces through the approach of phonetic symbol design by Type Designers. .. In addition, we will also introduce examples of Monotype font game adoption.
Talk session by Yukihiko Sanshin and Omagari City
We will explore Omagari, who is a type designer and a game enthusiast, and the possibility of typography from the perspective of the three products that are buying font books when he is a game developer.
timetable
| 18:05 – 18:25 | Yukihiko Mishina "Video Game Characters vol.1 -ACE COMBAT™ 7: SKIES UNKNOWN-" |
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| 18:25 – 18:45 | Omagari city "many were put in Latin alphabets Language corresponding" |
| 18:45 – 18:50 | Break (Announcement) |
| 18:50 – 19:20 | Talk session by Yukihiko Sanshin and Omagari City |
| 19:20-19:30 | Q&A (live) |
Speaker information
Yukihiko Mishina
Bandai Namco Studio Lead UI Artist. After graduating from the Department of Sculpture at Musashino Art University, worked as a TV art producer, figure master, and web designer. He is involved in UI design for arcade and smartphone games, centered on the company's flight shooting "Ace Combat Series." The company presides over a GUI portal and collects various technical information and know-how related to UI such as fonts, game engines, and development examples by project. Recent work is "ACE COMBAT™ 7: SKIES UNKNOWN" (2019/PlayStation®4, Xbox One, STEAM®)
Omagari City (Omagari/Toshi)
Born in Fukuoka Prefecture. After studying typography and typeface design at Musashino Art University and earning a master's degree in typeface design from Reading University, he joined Monotype in 2012. He is in charge of important typeface projects for Monotype, such as Neue Haas Unica, which had become a mysterious neogrotesque typeface, and Metro Nova, which is a reprint of the WA Dwiggins classic Metro. He also has a wealth of experience in multilingual Language such as Cyrillic, Greek, Arabic, and Tibetan, and has worked on many enacted typefaces for international brands such as H&M and Premier League. Taking advantage of that knowledge and experience in multilingual typeface design, he regularly gives lectures at Event such as ATypI.