Photo by Cathy Tang, 2010.

My sincere thanks to Jeannine Moser who had been so encouraging, and working with me through day and night since the start of this web, Dec 2011. Without her the web won't be done until my death.

Some of my best designs were done at the 6 years Cathy Tang with me. Without her I was nothing, thank you.

許瀚文 Hui Hon-Man, Julius
Chinese Text Typeface Designer, Graphic Designer

Born 1984 in Hong Kong, graduate of BA Visual Communication programme in 2009, School of Design, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Hui had spent 2 years for Chinese text typeface apprenticeship under the designer behind the famous LiGothic and LiSong Chinese font family on Mac OSX, Sammy Or, since late 2009 and eventually designed the new XinGothic™ Chinese font family, with Cherry Chao on Latin script. Upon 2012 Hui starts working as independent text typeface designer, dedicated to Chinese fonts, and graphic designer, based in Hong Kong.

Within 2 years, Hui's major business quickly grows into Chinese typography consultation, including retail and custom fonts (own Chinese and Latin font label is in progress), Chinese lettering for creative agencies and clients (e.g. Bloomberg Businessweek and Commercial Type), film titles (e.g. Orient Top Town), column writing (Milk Magazine and typeisbeautiful.com), and so on. With a rich background in graphic design, he also participated in promotional design (e.g. Edward Lam Theatre and White Noise Records), publication design (e.g. Milk Magazine), design for protestations (e.g. Police grows 2 mouths), exhibitions (e.g. Taicang Image in Hanzhou and Ink & Design in Hong Kong), and collaborations with young creative sectors (e.g. XEXGRP. and Trilingua).

Hui also gained major recognitions within China, includes Orient Top Town being the last 1 out of 10 finalists in The 6th Foundertype nation-wide Chinese typeface design competition 2011, applied typography catagory, gained a wide exposure among Beijing, Shanghai, Hanzhou, Guangzhou and Shenzhen. His poster Far Beyond Live won a finalist place in Hong Kong International Poster Triennial 2010, Young Generation catagory, exhibited in The Hong Kong Heritage Museum across 2010 and 2011, and taken as permanent collected item of the Museum.

Hui's column for Milk magazine's Creative Beta section 'typo.manner' publishes every week, concerns with typography matters happen local and global. He is also an in-board contributor of online typography journal typeisbeautiful.com.

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