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Robin Hui

Robin Hui joined China Type Design / Monotype Hong Kong in 1988 as a type designer. As chief typographer and production manager, Hui managed China Type's type design team and was responsible for a variety of font projects. In 2006, China Type was acquired by Monotype.

Robin was involved in a large number of type design and development projects, including the famous Monotype Hei, Sung and Kai families.

Robin's own creations include M Ngai, M Windy, M Comic (1991-2020: M Comic 2 HK, M Comic 2 PRC), M Razor, and M Lady. He is currently the chief design and production manager of Monotype Hong Kong, responsible for a wide variety of type design and technology projects, including compression, hinting and rendering control of typefaces across different platform, on different display environments such as LCD and ePaper.

Robin Hui helped to extend M Hei, M Sung and M Ying Hei to cover multiple Asian regions. He is currently representing Monotype in the Chinese Language Interface Consultation Committee of the Hong Kong SAR government.

Speaker at ATypI 2012 in Hong Kong: Ideographic type design and production. In this talk, together with Kenneth Kwok, he explains the following claim: Some of the many challenges of designing and producing a CJK ideographic font is to maintain consistency and tranquility.

He won an award at Granshan 2016 for the Chinese typeface M Ying Hei.

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