driven by trips to japan and continual frustration at being unable to read the language, michael johnson and his team at johnson banks have been trying to design a katakana typeface that has english phonetic sounds embedded: 'phonetikana'. The post johnson banks: phonetikana appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.
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