In the previous article of this series “Inclination of Italic 1,” how much the angle of italic is inclined in comparison between regular and italic is mentioned. In this article, I would lik…

As an important point for creating the thick weight in particular, there is thickness adjustment for strokes. Even when all strokes of kanji, hiragana, and katakana are numerically set at th…

Today, I would like to introduce “The Field Guide to Typography: Typefaces in the Urban Landscape,” written by Peter Dawson and translated by Yumiko Teshima. The outline of approximately 120…

In the previous article of this series “Design Process of Italic,” inclination of character is mentioned as an example of comparison points between regular and italic. As the impression of t…

Today, I would like to introduce “Designing Type,” written by Karen Cheng, edited by Yoshihisa Shirai, and translated by Keiko Ihara. This is a Japanese translation of the book published as …

Each glyph of a font is designed in the square frame called “imaginary body.” Furthermore, a frame one size smaller than imaginary body called “type face” is set in Japanese glyphs to use as…

TP Sky Low Contrast is adopted for Japanese type. When the concept and design for Latin are fixed to a certain degree, work to harmonize with Japanese type begins. As Latin looked smallish i…

*This article is created based on a presentation given at ATypI 2019 Tokyo.(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=va0NnxdgrqA) In addition to human checking, it is believed that checking using mac…

Today, I would like to introduce “Writing Vertically Creates the Scenery of Words – Why Do We Need Two Japanese Writings in Vertical and Horizontal?” written by Takayuki Kumagai. Grasp…

Features of Japanese notations using three character types, titled “Typesetting Kanji, Hiragana, and Katakana” are described previously in this blog. Focusing on the perspective of design wo…

The font design process differs depending on the designer. However, there are many cases in which the italic design begins after the regular design is fixed to some extent in the case of a f…

Vertical typesetting and horizontal typesetting are used for different purposes in Japanese. Most kanji and kana characters can be commonly used for both typesetting directions. There are al…

*This article is created based on a presentation given at ATypI 2019 Tokyo.（https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=va0NnxdgrqA） There are several research projects to automatically design typeface,…

Tokyo CityFont began when it was provided as a typeface by Nippon Design Center for indicating town blocks. With a focus on the theme ‘stylishness,’ the font features moderate modulation and…

Today, I would like to introduce “Kanji, Katakana, and Hiragana – History of Japanese Notation,” written by Shinji Konno The content explains Japanese notation up to written in kanji a…

“Leaving space between words” used in English and other languages is not done in Japanese. “Leaving space between words” serves the function of separating words and phrases with word spaces …