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24.03.11SeriesTypesetting Japanese / Font Typesetting Function

Font Typesetting Function 17: “Lining Numbers and Old Style Numbers (lnum/onum)”

Lining numbers with arranged height are used in the most Japanese fonts. In contrast, numbers that can have unevenness on the top and bottom at typesetting are old-style numbers. Old-style n…

24.02.19SeriesTypesetting Japanese / Font Typesetting Function

Font Typesetting Function 16: “Tabular Figures and Proportional Figures (tnum/pnum)”

When we talk about the figures included in fonts, the terms: “proportional” or “tabular” tend to be slightly complicated. Apart from the default figures “0123456789,” full-width figures “012…

24.01.22SeriesTypesetting Japanese / Font Typesetting Function

Font Typesetting Function 15: “Expert Forms (expt)”

I would like to talk about an item called “Expert Forms” in the Form Panel Menu of Illustrator and InDesign – what is it? To put it as simply as I can without using technical terms, “E…

23.12.18SeriesTypesetting Japanese / Font Typesetting Function

Font Typesetting Function 14: “Discretionary Ligature (dlig) Part 2”

In the previous article, I introduced “discretionary ligature (dlig)” that calls up optional ligature in the Latin font of Hama Mincho Italic as an example. In the case of Japanese fonts, &#…

23.12.11SeriesTypesetting Japanese / Font Typesetting Function

Font Typesetting Function 13: “Discretionary Ligature (dlig)”

I brought up “Latin ligature (liga)” in the previous article. In this article, I would like to introduce “discretionary ligature (dlig).” The name “discretionary ligature” may be difficult t…

23.11.20SeriesTypesetting Japanese / Font Typesetting Function

Font Typesetting Function 12: “Latin Ligature (liga)”

Designing the combination of two or more characters together is called ligature. In the example in the figure, the subtlety of the degree of sticking with f and t when arranged is solved by …

23.10.24SeriesTypesetting Japanese / Font Typesetting Function

Font Typesetting Function 11: “JIS78 Character Shape (jp78)”

The character “靱” (jin) used in “強靱” (kyoujin), “靱帯” (jintai), etc. has many variations, and it is an example of a topic that leads to long diatribes from character form fanatics. However, o…

23.09.04SeriesTypesetting Japanese / Font Typesetting Function

Font Typesetting Function 10: “Group of Fraction (afrc/frac)”

Two types of styles are prepared for the OpenType font fraction. One is “fraction (afrc) with the use of a horizontal line,” and the other is “fraction with the use of a slash (frac).” Prope…

23.07.31SeriesTypesetting Japanese / Font Typesetting Function

Font Typesetting Function 09: “JIS90 Character Shape (jp90)”

Two types of the character “巷” (chimata) are arranged in the figure. Which character looks more familiar to you? The left character is given in the dictionary. The shape of the right charact…

23.04.10SeriesTypesetting Japanese / Font Typesetting Function

Font Typesetting Function 08: “Metrics Kerning”

Metrics kerning is kerning based on information inside the font (set in advance by the font maker). In Japanese metrics kerning, the value is set on the assumption that proportional metrics …

23.03.13SeriesTypesetting Japanese / Font Typesetting Function

Font Typesetting Function 07: “Various Things About Kerning”

Kerning is used to adjust the spacing between specific characters. Options in the Kerning Menu in InDesign/Illustrator include: Japanese Fixed-Width, Metrics (“Auto” depending on the version…

23.02.13SeriesTypesetting Japanese / Font Typesetting Function

Font Typesetting Function 06: “Proportional Metrics”

[Proportional Metrics] in InDesign/Illustrator is a function to narrow the character based on the character width information that fonts have for typesetting with narrowed spacing between ch…

23.01.10SeriesTypesetting Japanese / Font Typesetting Function

Font Typesetting Function 05: “[Narrowed Spacing Between Characters] in Adobe Applications”

There is a function called [Narrowed Spacing Between Characters] in InDesign/Illustrator. While tracking explained in the previous entry is narrowing the spacing between characters evenly, t…

22.12.05SeriesTypesetting Japanese / Font Typesetting Function

Font Typesetting Function 04: “Which Function for Narrowed Spacing Between Characters is Used?”

There are various functions in Adobe InDesign/Illustrator that can be used for narrowed spacing between characters. Which function do you often use? In InDesign, there are [Kerning], [Tracki…

22.11.07SeriesTypesetting Japanese / Font Typesetting Function

Font Typesetting Function 03: “Mechanism of Typesetting with Narrowed Spacing Between Characters”

It has been previously explained that the OpenType features have GPOS (making adjustments by moving the glyph position) and GSUB (replacing the glyph). Starting here, and over the next sever…

22.09.20SeriesTypesetting Japanese / Font Typesetting Function

Font Typesetting Function 02: “GPOS and GSUB”

The OpenType features have a function to “make adjustment by moving the glyph position” and another function to “replace the glyph.” The former is called GPOS and the latter is called GSUB. …

22.08.30SeriesTypesetting Japanese / Font Typesetting Function

Font Typesetting Function 01: “What are the OpenType Features?”

For example, the shapes of the small script “ゃ,” and the prolonged sound mark “ー” differ when the character string of “にゃー” is placed in horizontal typesetting and vertical typesetting. As i…

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