Frustrated by his inability to read Japanese, a typographer designs a Katakana typeface embedded with phonetic pronunciations. Michael Johnson, of the graphic design firm Johnson Banks, spends a lot of time traveling to Japan. Nonetheless, he still can’t read the language. It drives him crazy. So they’ve responded with a brilliant design: A hybrid Japanese/English typeface, in which Katakana sylla
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