Masataka Hattori
Sr. Font Developer at Adobe Systems
Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolMasataka Hattori is a Sr. Font Developer with 11 years of experience based in Japan, currently at Adobe Systems where he focuses on automating and scaling font build workflows. Trained in graphic design at Aichi Prefectural University of the Arts, he blends typographic sensibility with pragmatic engineering to produce robust OpenType packages. His open-source work on the widely used Source Han Code JP demonstrates hands-on expertise in shell and Python scripting, font metadata, and tools like makeotf and sfntedit to streamline multi-weight builds and embed SVG tables. Colleagues rely on him for turning intricate font specifications into repeatable, automated pipelines that reduce manual packaging overhead.
11 years of coding experience
グラフィックデザイン, グラフィックデザイン at 愛知県立芸術大学
Github Skills (6)
sh10
script10
shell10
python10
scripting10
git3
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
adobe-fonts/source-han-code-jp
May 2015 - Sep 2018
Source Han Code JP | 源ノ角ゴシック Code
Role in this project:
Automation Engineer
Automation EngineerContributions:7 releases, 25 commits, 4 PRs in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Masataka focused on automating the font build process. They wrote and modified shell scripts (`commands.sh`, `commands_subroutinize_otc.sh`) to build OpenType fonts with different weights and styles, and added SVG tables using Python scripts. They also modified font metadata files (`cidfontinfo.it`, `features.it`) and used tools like `makeotf`, `sfntedit`, and `tx` as part of the build automation. The user's efforts streamlined the font creation and packaging workflow.
google-fontsvscodevscode-extensionvariable-fontsfonts
adobe-type-tools/Adobe-Japan1
Dec 2020 - Jan 2023
The Adobe-Japan1-7 Character Collection
Contributions:1 release, 5 commits, 3 PRs in 2 years 1 month
adobeextendscriptjapanesefontsaem
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