Adobe Designers

Ryoko Nishizuka

Ryoko Nishizuka, who designed the Ryo typeface family, graduated from Musashino Art University in 1995, and began working at Morisawa & Company, a leading type foundry and manufacturer of digital typesetting systems in Japan. Next, she decided to work as graphic designer at a design studio. But her main interest was always in typeface design. In 1997, Ryoko joined Adobe. She has been involved in the development of the Kozuka Mincho and Gothic typefaces designed by Masahiko Kozuka.

In 1999, Ryoko received an honorable mention for her typeface “Branch Letter” at the Morisawa Awards International Typeface Design Competition. In 2002, her typeface “Teika” won the Silver Prize at the same Morisawa competition. In 2003, Ryoko created the Ryo Text and Ryo Display “kana” typeface families. The Ryo Text and Display families are composed of nine sub-set Japanese “kana” OpenType fonts for eight different weights. The brightness emitted from the Ryo typeface is based on her original interpretation of traditional styles of “kana” calligraphy and type design.