Naoko is a sans-serif typeface family in 7 weights. The name originates from "Naoko Yamazaki", the 2nd Japanese female to become an astronaut. Its design depends on wide proportions, extremely short ascenders and light diacritics on all weights. It comes with a stylistic set of light punctuation, and an alternative g. Some Japanese symbols are even hidden in its character set……
If you wish to know more about the style procedure, please check "Naoko" on Kickstarter and you need to find a video discussing the entire project.