“The 50 sounds in Hiragana” are often referenced. However, when creating Hiragana in font creation, 50 glyphs are not enough, and usually an approximate 100 glyphs are created. Glyphs, such …

I wrote in the previous article that Jun Mincho kanji is tight in the vertical direction. It is not correct to simply tighten the inside space between strokes to the same direction. Each met…

Today, I would like to introduce “Mincho Type: Its Origin and Formation,” written by Hiroshi Komiyama. It is a heavy, large-sized book with a lot of content. However, Mr. Komiyama’s simple s…

As I was in charge of kanji for Jun Mincho, Jun Mincho Headline, and Jun Mincho Hairline, I started creating kanji exploring their relationship with kana, what kind of typeface to aim for, t…

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…