November, 2022 - Type Project Staff Blog

22.11.28SeriesJapanese Type Design / Constituent of Kanji and Creation Points

Constituent of Kanji and Creation Points 01: “Radical”

Kanji can be grouped by radical. Radicals are a part of kanji. For example, “焼, 炊, and 炒” are all kanji with a common radical. This radical is “火” when it is written alone. As the part on th…

22.11.22SeriesRecommended Book / From TP’s Stack

From TP’s Stack: “Characters of Prayers” and “Characters of Cities”

Today, I would like to introduce “Characters of Prayers” and “Characters of Cities,” written by Yoji Haijima.Characters the author and his acquaintances found are introduced with various pho…

22.11.14SeriesWeb Font / Web Font Design Technique

Web Font Design Technique 02: “Match the Character Size to the Screen Size”

In website design utilizing typography, the text may be displayed larger for the screen, or the relative position and size with the surrounding graphic elements may become important. In the …

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…