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…

I don’t think anybody can catch a glimpse of the creator’s feeling by looking at each font character. However, many kanji characters have this meaning embedded, so I tend to associate a vari…

Today, I would like to introduce “Stroll with Typography: Observation of Characters on the Road,” written by Kentaro Fujimoto. This book consists of records of encounters with characte…

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…

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…

When the characters of “之繞” (shin-nyou) are typed in a font, there is a group with one dot for shin-nyou, such as “近, 送,通,” and another group with two dots for shin-nyo, such as “迚, 遙, 迴.” F…

I would like to introduce a visual adjustment point related to the thickness of the vertical stroke and horizontal stroke. The vertical stroke and horizontal stroke introduced in this articl…

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, &#…

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…

What are the common names for each radical? Apart from those in which the original kanji names are used as they are, such as “ki-hen, take-kanmuri, mon-gamae,” etc., there are names with a t…

In this series, I would like to introduce visual adjustments for typeface creation. For this, I would like to introduce an example of the character “田.” As a rough rule in typeface creation,…

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 …

Based on the experience in providing fonts using the FitFont Service to this point, Type Project continues its technological development to strengthen the service further. TP Sky, which is t…

As previously introduced in this blog, kanji can be categorized by radical. Although the number of radical categories varies depending on the dictionary, there are some radicals that have co…

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…

Adjustment of thickness is essential to creating a sense of unity in the character. For “木 (Ki)” that comes in the center, there are more adjustments in the horizontal stroke. Thickness is a…