As introduced in the first article of the series, some forms of “木 (Ki)” incorporate a stop brush on the forth stroke. Adjustment of this stop brush may be bold compared to the other strokes…

Two types of the character “巷” (chimata) are arranged in the figure. Which character looks more familiar to you? The left character is given in the dictionary. The shape of the right charact…

Today, I would like to introduce “Men Who are Possessed by the Type,” written by Jiro Katashio. Centered in Japan in the early Showa era, crossing the era and different countries, 11 men who…

“木 (Ki)” becomes vertically long in ki-hen, such as “村, 榑, 樹,” etc. The width of “木 (Ki)” is tuned to a fine degree to match the element that comes on the right side. On the other hand, ther…

From this time, I would like to focus only on “木 (Ki)” and introduce what kind of adjustments are made in creating kanji. There are a lot of kanji with “木 (Ki),” such as “札, 杉, 村, 極, 機, 樹, 呆…

In this series, examples of developing and providing fonts with the utilization of the FitFont technology for Alpine AXIS and DENSO corporate font were introduced. The third example is the b…

To create a radical, there is a group of patterns that are approved, such as making a certain stroke in a stop brush or sweeping. Even with choices made freely, taking a broad view of charac…

As an example of developing and providing fonts with the utilization of the FitFont technology, “Alpine AXIS” was introduced in the previous article of this series. The second example is a c…

Metrics kerning is kerning based on information inside the font (set in advance by the font maker). In Japanese metrics kerning, the value is set on the assumption that proportional metrics …

I would like to introduce an example of developing and providing fonts with the utilization of the FitFont technology in this article. First is an example of adjusting Type Project Japanese …

The radicals of the enclosed system include “tare,” “nyou,” and “kamae.” Thickness is adjusted so that appearance of the enclosing side is stronger, and the enclosed part is weaker. Regardin…

Kerning is used to adjust the spacing between specific characters. Options in the Kerning Menu in InDesign/Illustrator include: Japanese Fixed-Width, Metrics (“Auto” depending on the version…

Using our Latin combination experience in the past, we have developed a tool to effectively merge the GPOS/GSUB feature that is utilized at the time of merging Japanese font and Latin font i…