A semi-autobiographical essay by the type designer behind Hiragino and Yu fonts, describing the craft and thinking behind making letters. It explains in clear prose how readability, beauty, and the medium shape typography precisely because good type often recedes from notice.

It follows the quiet design philosophy of letters that do not call attention to themselves because they are meant to be read.

A shinsho by a former judge with long experience in criminal trials, examining lay judge trials, wrongful convictions, capital punishment, and sentencing. Drawing on practice, it considers the tension between the coldness of legal systems and the human feeling that inevitably enters the courtroom.

It looks at the place where the severity of judging people meets human feeling.