Kaito Osawa is a Japanese type designer. After studying cultural exchange in 19th-century East Asia at Waseda University, he joined Shiachihata Inc. as a typeface developer. After four years of working experience, he studied at the University of Reading in 2022. He worked on the Hangul-Latin-Japanese typeface there and the theme of the thesis is "Missionaries and movable metal type in China and Japan.” He designed more than four million Japanese and Chinese characters.