Simple and airy design

Although it is a full-fledged sans-serif typeface, there is little modulation in the sweeping and point brush strokes to match a structure based on handwriting. As it was developed with the vision that an entire magazine could be set in a single typeface family, AXIS Font allows for the creation of a rich variety of magazine designs while maintaining a consistent sensibilityWith our superfine Ultra Light font, completely new, fresh heading styles never before available with Japanese fonts are now possible. Moreover, excellent compatibility has been achieved between Japanese typefaces (for hiragana, katakana, kanji and other characters) and Latin typefaces. 

First Japanese Compact Series

AXIS Font Compact Series, instead of merely compressing the characters, we have succeeded in creating typefaces of superior density and text quality by designing the kanji ideograms, kana and alphabetic characters each with appropriate character widths. The AXIS Font Compact Series’ Condensed typeface features narrow kanji characters designed at 80% normal font width, with kana characters at 76%, while in the Compressed typeface, the kanji are designed at 60% width and the kana at 50%.

Maximize economic efficiency

Font narrowing is a manipulation that spoils the basic elements of a typeface’s design, for example, line balance and character proportionality. To maximize economic efficiency of information space without sacrificing text readability or beauty: this is the central design aim of the AXIS Font Compact Series. AXIS Font Condensed character widths have been kept to slightly under 80% of the width of the basic font, a single line of text can hold approximately 1.3 times more information. AXIS Font Compressed widths are slightly under 60%, 1.8 times more information.