Today, I would like to introduce “Shintaro Ajioka’s Typeface Course,” written by Shintaro Ajioka. Typeface and typography-related writings of Shintaro Ajioka, the creator of Mincho typeface …

Our recommended books are introduced from the staff blog “From TP’s Stack.” There is an extensive book collection in Type Project’s stack. At the time of joining the company, I was surprised…

Two types of styles are prepared for the OpenType font fraction. One is “fraction (afrc) with the use of a horizontal line,” and the other is “fraction with the use of a slash (frac).” Prope…

Type Project’s fonts can be seen everywhere- posters displayed on trains, book covers, product packages, art museum signage, etc. There are also articles on example of usage in the staff blo…

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…