Representative seal (corporate seal/office seal)

When establishing a company, it must be registered with the Legal Affairs Bureau, and this refers to the HANKO that is registered at that time. Corporate HANKO are registered seals, and there are regulations when registering them.

  • The size of the HANKO must fit in a square with a size of 10 mm or more and less than 30 mm.
  • What is suitable for matching

Otherwise, the HANKO cannot be registered. This "stamp" is a HANKO that proves the rights and obligations of a corporate representative, so it must be carefully managed. The size of the stamp surface is generally 18mm.

Material (typical types of stamp materials)

Material (representative type of seal material): Ivory
ivory
Material (representative type of seal material) Dutch buffalo
dutch buffalo
Material (representative type of seal material) Black buffalo
black buffalo
Material (representative type of seal material) Genuine boxwood
Mototsuge
Material (typical type of seal material): Titanium
Titanium

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Size of representative seal (corporate seal/office seal)

Size of representative seal (corporate seal/office seal)

Many people seem to use 21mm for 15 characters or more, and 24mm for 25 characters or more. (Image not to scale)

Font of representative seal (corporate seal/office seal)

Representative seal (corporate seal/job title seal) typeface: seal script
Seal font
The font of the representative seal (corporate seal/official seal)
Inso body
Representative seal (corporate seal/official seal) font: Koin style
Kointai

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Stamp trivia/Unchiku

Stamp trivia x Unchiku

Putting a stamp on a book collection "Book collection" means a collection of books or books. The seals stamped on books to identify their ownership are called zoshoin (zoshoin). It is generally stamped on the first page of the book or on the last page. These books have a wide variety of stamps and shapes. It has a deep history, and there is a theory that unique seal impressions began to be made after books became popular around the Edo period. It would not be an exaggeration to say that the library seal that looks like an old book represents the history of this book.

Trivia about stamps

Stamp “Inaru History Museum”…
The beginning of the stamp system and civilization.
The origin of seals dates back to more than 7000 BC and is said to have originated in Mesopotamia. Furthermore, the ``stamp'' system was not introduced from China but from the West, and there are about 40 references to the system of registered seals and personal seals in the Old Testament. ...[ Read the rest of the story about Hanko's "Inaru History Museum" ]

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