Role Serif Display Pro

Morisawa Inc.

Role Serif is part of the first stand-alone Latin typeface family released by Morisawa. Other genres in the family include Slab, Sans and Soft. Role Serif has the clearest image of seriousness or faithfulness among other styles. Text has the lowest contrast and the sturdy serifs for high legibility. The contrast gets higher for Display and Banner to help the look become more elegant. The letterforms are optimised for the target usage of each optical range. The letterforms of Text are consistent but morphs into the more decorative design for Display and Banner. The Display is in between Text and Banner and looks more graceful than Text but not too prominent to affect the versatility. Ban- ner is the most elegant design. The characteristic is more emphasised especially for the heavier weights where the widths narrow down.

PUBLISHED: LANGUAGE: OPENTYPE FEATURES: 2019 Latin (98+) Proportional lining figures Proportional oldstyle figures FORMAT: SERIES & SCRIPTS: Fraction OpenType Role Serif Text Pro Case Sensitive form Role Serif Banner Pro Superscript/Subscript STYLES: Small Caps 14 Styles (7 weight with Italics) Caps to Small Caps Zero Slash Scientific Inferior DESIGNED BY: Localised Forms Matthew Carter Sakura Taruno Kunihiko Okano

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LATIN (98+) ABOUT THE DESIGNERS

Afrikaans, Albanian, Alsace, Aromanian, Asturian, Matthew Carter is a type designer with 60 years’ experience in typo- Azerbaijani, Basque, Bosnian, Breton, Catalan, graphic technologies, ranging from hand-cut punches to computer fonts. After a long association with the Linotype companies he was a co-founder Cebuano, Chamorro, Chewa/Nyanja, Cornish, of Bitstream Inc. in 1981, a digital type foundry where he worked for ten Corsican, Crimean Tatar, Croatian, Czech, Danish, years. Carter is now a principal of Carter & Cone Type Inc., designers and Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Faroese, Fijian, producers of original typefaces, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Carter’s type designs include ITC Galliard, Snell Roundhand and Shelley Filipino/Tagalog, Finnish, French, Frisian, Friulian, scripts, Helvetica Compressed, Olympian, Bell Centennial, ITC Charter, Gaelic, Gagauz, Galician, German, Gilbertese, Mantinia, Sophia, Big Caslon, Big Moore, Miller, Roster, Georgia, Verdana, Greenlandic, Hawaiian, Hiligaynon, Hmong, Tahoma, Sitka and Carter Sans. Hungarian, Iban, Ibanagu, Icelandic, Ilocano, Inari

Sami, Indonesian/Malay, Irish, Italian, Kapampangan, Sakura Taruno graduated in the General Curriculum and Instruction course Karelian, Kashubian, Kurdish, Ladin, Latin, Latvian, from the Nara University of Education. In 2011, she joined Morisawa Lithuanian, Luba, Lule Sami, Luxembourgish, Maltese, Bunken Inc. and started her career as a type designer. In 2018 she was transferred to Morisawa Inc. and now mainly works on Latin Type design Moldavian, Montenegrin, Māori, Northern Sami, projects. She has been involved in the production of A1 Gothic (2017) and Norwegian, Occitan, Pangasinan, Piedmontese, Polish, Role Serif (2019). Portuguese, Romanian, Romansh, Rotokas, Samoan, Sardinian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, Sorbian, Southern Kunihiko Okano is a type designer and the founder of Shotype Design Sami, Southern Sotho, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, (www.shotype.com). Born in Hyogo, Japan, he graduated the visual design Tausug, Tetum, Tok Pisin, Tongan, Tswana, Turkish, course at the Kyoto City University of Arts. After ten years of working as a packaging designer at Ing associates inc., he worked for the Type project, Uzbek, Vepsian, Walloon, Welsh, Wolof, Yapese, and established his own design office Shotype Design in 2008 and has Yoruba, Zulu been focusing on designing typefaces and logotypes. In 2011, he graduated the Type and Media program at the Royal Academy of Art in the Hague, the Netherlands. He was commissioned to design the Latin part of Hiragino UD and Hiragino Kaku Gothic W0 for SCREEN Graphic Solutions Co., Ltd., and the Latin part of Toppan Bunkyu for Toppan Printing Co., Ltd., and has released Quintet from Photo-Lettering. He had contributed for Role family project at Morisawa from 2015 to 2018.

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