It was mentioned in the previous article that information is differentiated by combining regular and the application of italic. Due to such application, both regular and italic are usually i…

In the current Japanese kanji-kana notations, approximately 60 to 70% of texts become kana in many cases. As there are only forty-six basic characters for hiragana and katakana, respectively…

Today, I would like to introduce “Scripts: Elegant Lettering from Design’s Golden Age,” written by Steven Heller and Louise Fili. It is a visual book of a collection of scripts drawn i…

Type Project released Hama Mincho Italic in 2020.Although italic is a typeface style less familiar in Japan, it frequently appears in books, dictionaries, etc. in several language areas that…

The basic of the current Japanese notations is “written in kanji and kana” in which the three character types of kanji, hiragana, and katakana are used in mixture. Kanji is an ideogram origi…

A blog has been started to post on issues related to typeface by Type Project designers and engineers.A wide range of contents are planned, including trivia regarding typeface design and typ…