Dr. Ken Lunde
Adobe
Dr. Ken Lunde has worked at Adobe for over twenty-eight years, specializing in CJKV type development. He architected and maintains the open-source Source Han Sans and Source Han Serif Pan-CJK typeface families, released in 2014 and 2017, respectively. Lunde is the author of CJKV Information Processing, Second Edition (O’Reilly, 2009), received the 2018 Unicode Bulldog Award, and became a Unicode technical director in the same year. He publishes articles on Adobe’s CJK Type Blog on a regular basis.
ATypI Tokyo | Thursday, 5 September, 2019 | 10:10
– 10:30
| Miraikan Hall
The History of Japan’s Era Name Square Ligatures
Talk | Presented in English2019 represents a very important year for Japan: a new era named Reiwa (令和) began on May 1, 2019. Japan’s current and four previous era names are composed of two kanji (also known as ideographs). Japan’s Era Name Law (1979)...