July, 2024 - Type Project Staff Blog

24.07.29SeriesRecommended Book / Book of the Month

Book of the Month (June 2024): “New Design Guide: Design of Japanese Language”

Today, I would like to introduce “New Design Guide: Design of Japanese Language,” written by Yasuhito Nagahara. This book teaches us the design behind Japanese language and its flow to the p…

24.07.22SeriesJapanese Type Design / Surprisingly Many Kana System Glyphs

Surprisingly Many Kana System Glyphs 03: “Half-Width, and Block of Multiple Characters Arranged in a Space Equivalent to That of a Single Character”

Today, I would like to introduce points on creating half-width and blocks of multiple characters arranged in a space equivalent to that of a single character, testing the application ability…

24.07.08SeriesFont in use / TP Font in use

Introduction to Examples of TP Font Usage: “Advertisements Part 1”

Type Project fonts will be introduced based on examples of usage in different media, including packages, books, websites, and advertisements. I would like to introduce advertisements in this…

24.07.01SeriesWeb Font / Optimization of Web Font

Optimization of Web Font 06: “size-adjust, ascent-override, and descent-override”

I introduced FOUT (flickering at the time of replacing the font), which is a web font issue, in Optimization of Web Font 01: “FOIT and FOUT. At the time of utilizing web font, the page layou…