Minoru Kamono 鴨野 実

Kamono was born in 1948 in Tokyo. In 1970 after graduating from Asagaya College of Art and Design, he joined Kuwayama Typeface Design (formed by Yasaburo Kuwayama). In 1978, he formed Kamono Design Laboratory. In 1980, he won the 1st prize in the Japanese typeface design category at the 6th Ishii Awards Typeface Contest. And in 1983, he formed Typo-Powers, a group of typeface designers, and released an easy-to-use typeface for logotypes, at the Typo-Powers Exhibition held in 1984. In 1985, he contracted with Sha-Ken to sell the four glass-grid phototypesetting fonts of his Logo Line typeface family.

He released the Lettuce and Koala typefaces, which were published by Maar-sha, and the phototypesetter fonts of his Kasogo typeface, which was the 1st prize winning design at the 6th Ishii Awards Typeface Contest. He also co-authored and published the books Hiragana and Katakana Typefaces 1 and 2 from Maar-sha.

In 1993, he released Japanese PostScript fonts based on his three typeface families: Logo Arl, Logo Cut and Logo Line through Adobe. In 1996, at the 5th Morisawa Awards International Typeface Design Competition, he received the Judge’s Prize/Masahiko Kozuka’s prize in the Japanese typeface design category for Hammer Gothic M. In 1999, at the 6th Morisawa Awards International Typeface Design Competition, he received the Copper Prize in the Latin typeface design category for Logo & Script. In 2011, he released the two typeface families KamoLime and KamoLemon through Morisawa.