Glossary

A generic term used for radicals located at the bottom of a kanji.

The inside space surrounded by strokes.

It is mainly used in the context of Latin typography, but it is also a concept in common with “Futokoro” in kanji and kana.

Font established to regulate a corporate brand image.

Beginning part of writing of a line that constitutes the character.

Ending part of writing of a line that constitutes the character.

Shape of a written character.

Right and left width of a character.

Font that corresponds to the three languages of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.

One kind of typeface.
Each stroke of a character is written clearly and not in the cursive style.
The standard writing method taught at school in Japan currently.

The character set standard specified for Japanese fonts by Adobe KK.
As of June 2021, it is defined from Abode Japan 1-0 to 1-7.

A generic term used for radicals on the left side.

Space between strokes that constitute a character.

Phonogram specific to Japan that constitutes writing kanji in the cursive style.
“あいう,” etc.

Typesetting to arrange characters in a horizontal direction.
In Japanese, characters proceed from left to right, and lines proceed from top to bottom.

Characters included in a font or its shape.
The same character may have multiple glyphs, such as the full width character “ア” and half width character “ｱ.”

Font group created with a consistent design on the same concept.
Often, there are variations with different weight, character width, inclination, contrast, etc. within the group.

A generic term for radicals used to cover the inside of a kanji.

A generic term used for radicals located on the top of a kanji.

Space between strokes that constitute a character.

Ideogram originating in China, also used in languages in the surrounding area.
“永東愛,” etc.

Phonogram specific to Japan that is made up by taking a part of kanji.
“アイウ,” etc.

Characters used in Japanese notation, created based on kanji.
Kana mainly means hiragana and katakana today.

Phonogram used centered in European languages including English.

Japanese sentences. Or characters used in that notation.

“Leaving space between words” is a notation method to separate words and phrases with word spaces (blanks).

Information on adjusting space between characters for each glyph or combination of glyphs.

Indicates a palatalized doubled consonant, etc.
Kana indicated in small characters, such as “ゃ” for “や.”

Square frame used to design each glyph.

A generic term for radicals located from the left to the bottom right of a kanji.

The font format is developed by Microsoft and Adobe. The retail fonts supplied by Type Project are all OpenType.

A craftsman who cuts letter punches. A letter punch is an original mold used in making the concave shape mold that is to become a metal type used in letterpress printing. The letter part has a convex shape. Before mechanical engraving became popular, all letter punches were cut in full-scale and right and left reversed by hand.

Punctuation mainly used in pair to enclose characters and sentences to distinguish them.
“「」『』（）,” etc.

文中や文末で使用し、文章の区切りを示す約物。
「、。」など。

One kind of typeface.
Features include thick vertical stroke, thin horizontal stroke, triangle ornament of the “uroko.”

A generic term for radicals located from the top to the bottom left of a kanji.

In regard to web font, a website creator arranges and utilizes font data on a server.

One part of kanji.
Categorization can be made by meaning (水 (water), 糸 (string), 木 (wood)), position (偏 (side), 旁 (right-hand radical), 冠 (crown)), etc.

Work to constitute paper space by combining type and illustration, or a type page.

Typesetting to arrange characters without narrowing or widening the space between imaginary bodies.

A frame one size smaller than an imaginary body.
Used as an indication to arrange character size.

One kind of typeface.
Features include an ornamental “serif” attached at the end of a stroke.

One kind of typeface.
Unornamented stroke is a feature.

It is the standard Japanese character set Adobe-Japan 1-3 with the adoption of the JIS 2004 character shape.

Literally, a term originating from the height of the lower case letter “x.” This forms the standard height for the lower case letters “a, c, e, x, z,” etc. in typeface design.

Technology that enables displaying text on a web page in a specific font by reading font data from the internet.

Notation method in which kanji, hiragana, and katakana are mixed.
“この文章も漢字仮名交じり。” – This text is also written in kanji and kana.

Blank inserted between words and phrases to separate them.

Typesetting to arrange characters in a vertical direction.
In Japanese, characters proceed from top to bottom, and lines proceed from right to left.

Thickness and thinness of a font.
At Type Project, “L, R, M, B, Blk,” etc. are attached in the font name for indication.