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Designed byMasaki Ando

2nd print
2021. 05.31

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No. 4

Koga Sans Modern
typeface specimen

WolphType

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Intro

Koga Sans Modern

Typeface Specimen

Intro

Koga Sans Modern is my newest
humanist typeface for on-screen.
Originally, work on this typeface
began in February of 2021 for myportfolio site, wolph.designwolph.design.
It is based on Koga Sans, but withsimpler, more user-friendly forms
and features.
It currently has nine weights andvariable fonts ranging from ultra
light to black, with italics to be added. The terminals in Koga Sans
Modern are cut like in Koga Sans,but are straighter and sharper. Thecurves have been trimmed andcleaned up.
Koga Sans Modern はオンスクリーンのための私の最も新しいヒューマ
ニスト書体です。もともとこの書体は私のポートフォリオサイト、wolph.
design のために2021 年の2月から制 作が 始まりました。この書 体はKoga Sansをベースにしており、よりシンプルで使いやすい字形と機能を備えています。

現在は Ultra Light から Blackまでの9つのウェイトとVariable Fontを備えており、イタリックも追加される予定です。
Koga Sans Modern のターミナルは Koga Sans 同様にカットされていますが、直線になりよりシャープな印象を持ちます。また、曲線は整えられてすっきりとしたものになりました。

Easy-to-use!

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Glyphs & WeightsKoga Sans Modern

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmn
opqrstuvwxyz
1234567890
1234567890,.“”!?&@
fffiflffiffl
JMaaadglqtuy0033

UPPERCASE

LOWERCASE

LINING FIGURESOLDSTYLE FIGURESLIGATURES

ALTERNATES

Koga Sans Modern is a work in progress and does not have
many glyphs yet. However, there are a few changes.
The legs of K, R, k and y are now straight, and the other curvy
parts are now simple shapes. With the addition of J on thebaseline and M with a vertical stem, we can now handle more“common” shapes. However, these are not compromises, but theresult of our search for the best solution between the essenceof Koga Sans and ease of use.

Koga Sans Modern は制作中であり、グリフはまだ最低限のものしかありません。しかし、Koga Sans からいくつかアップデートされています。
K や R, k や y のレッグは直線になり、他の曲線的な部分もシンプルな造形になりました。ベースラインに載っている J, ステムが垂直な M が追加されたことで、より「一般的な」形も扱えるようになりました。とはいえこれらは妥協案ではなく、Koga Sans のエッセンスと使いやすさの間での最適解を探った結果です。

Typeface Specimen

Glyphs & Weights

Gutenberg,Jenson, Colines.
Fournier!
Bodoni & Didot.
W. A.Dwiggins,Lubalin?
Smeijers,@tosche andWolphtype!

5ULTRA LIGHT 100

THIN 200

LIGHT 300

REGULAR 400

MEDIUM 500

SEMI BOLD 600

BOLD 700

HEAVY 800

BLACK 900

WAD to RR

WAD to RR

WAD to RR

Dear RR: The way I work at present is todraw an alphabet 10 times 12point size,with a pen or brush, the letters carefully
finished. I start with the lower-case,and let its characters settle the style ofthe capitals. Ten times twelve point isa convenient size to work: and I have adiminishing glass that reduces the letters
to something like 12 point size when I put
the drawing on the floor and squint at
it through the glass held belt high. Thisgives a rough idea of what the redction
does to curves and thing.
Quote from: William Addion Dwiggins,
WAD to RR: A letter about desinging
Type, Harvard College Library, 1940.

Dear RR: The way I work at present is todraw an alphabet 10 times 12point size,with a pen or brush, the letters carefully
finished. I start with the lower-case,and let its characters settle the style ofthe capitals. Ten times twelve point isa convenient size to work: and I havea diminishing glass that reduces theletters to something like 12 point size
when I put the drawing on the floor andsquint at it through the glass held belt
high. This gives a rough idea of what theredction does to curves and thing.
Quote from: William Addion Dwiggins,
WAD to RR: A letter about desinging
Type, Harvard College Library, 1940.

Dear RR: The way I work at present is todraw an alphabet 10 times 12point size,with a pen or brush, the letters carefully
finished. I start with the lower-case,and let its characters settle the style ofthe capitals. Ten times twelve point is
a convenient size to work: and I havea diminishing glass that reduces theletters to something like 12 point size
when I put the drawing on the floor andsquint at it through the glass held belt
high. This gives a rough idea of what theredction does to curves and thing.
Quote from: William Addion Dwiggins,
WAD to RR: A letter about desinging
Type, Harvard College Library, 1940.

6Features

Just Idea
Made 30Struggle
BaroqueJourney 03
7,829,385,146
Koga Sans Modern has many OpenType features and alternate
forms, including easy-to-use J and M, single-story a and g,
old-style figures and tabular figures. In the future, we plan toinclude small caps and case-sensitive forms.
Koga Sans Modern はいくつかの OpenType 機能とオルタネート字形を持っています。使いやすい形の JとM, single-storyの aとg, オールド
スタイル数字や等幅数字などです。将来的には、スモールキャップスや大文字用字形も搭載する予定です。

Koga Sans Modern

Typeface Specimen

ExampleWHITE & BEIGEDESIGN TYPE
MACBOOK AIR
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GRID SYSTEM@WOLPHTYPETYPOGRAPHYLAYCALOPEX
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Quote from Type Tricks, Sofie Beier, p38

78Future

Koga Sans Modern

UpdateSchedule
Implemented:
Basic Latin Letters
Lining Figures
Oldstyle Figures
Punctuation
From Now On:
Tabular Figures
Symbols
DiacriticalItalics
Small Caps
Koga Sans Modern ver.0.1
Typeface Specimen
from WolphType.
Designed byMasaki Ando a.k.a Wolphtype

Contact
Twitter: @wolphtype
Instagram: @wolphtype
Website: wolph.design
Mail: blacktails2@gmail.com

Thank you for reading.
copyright WolphType, Masaki Ando.
May 31st, 2021