Eiichi Kono

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Eiichi Kono is a Japanese type designer best known for his work on the digital revival and refinement of the iconic Johnston typeface used across the London Underground.

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Eiichi Kono canonical 1

Statements (30)

Predicate Object
instanceOf graphic designer
human
type designer
areaOfInfluence corporate identity
public transport signage
basedOn Johnston typeface NERFINISHED
countryOfCitizenship Japan
designed New Johnston typeface NERFINISHED
digital version of Johnston typeface
designedFor London Underground NERFINISHED
employer Banks & Miles NERFINISHED
fieldOfWork graphic design
type design
typography
genre sans-serif typefaces
influencedBy Edward Johnston NERFINISHED
knownFor maintaining visual character of original Johnston in digital adaptation
refining proportions and details of Johnston for digital use
languageOfWorkOrName English
Japanese
nationality Japanese
notableFor digital revival of Johnston typeface for London Underground
notableWork New Johnston typeface NERFINISHED
digital revival of Johnston typeface
refinement of London Underground Johnston typeface
occupation graphic designer
type designer
residence London, England
surface form: London

United Kingdom
workLocation London, England
surface form: London

How these facts were elicited

The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.

Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Eiichi Kono
Description of subject: Eiichi Kono is a Japanese type designer best known for his work on the digital revival and refinement of the iconic Johnston typeface used across the London Underground.

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Johnston typeface digitizationBy Eiichi Kono