Question about Chinese and Korean typography
From time to time i had to design documents that are tri lingual, or bi-lingual. its almost always, spanish, english and another language, the last two were Chinese and Korean...Usually i receive...
View ArticleJapanese/Korean futura?
Hi, I'm in the process of creating a masthead for a fictional magazine, and I'm using futura extra bold – All caps. I'm translating the title in other languages, and I want to try to make a japanese...
View ArticleA Truly Global Typography Lesson?
I am looking for a good primer on Global Typography, i.e. the 'ins' and 'outs' of working with multiple translations and language/character sets (English, Chinese, Japanese, Cyrillic, etc)could be as...
View ArticleDoes anybody have experience with asian type?
Hi,I'm working on a set of packagings in different languages and I'd need to know what difficulties I could find in terms of type, composition, if it's written from left to right or top to bottom. If...
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Beautiful asian inspired wedge serif / Calligraphy options
Hey Guys, I'm wondering if anyone can identify the typeface (Japanese Sign Language)? I'm also looking for alternate suggestions for asian inspired serif fonts (I've done a typophile search and have...
View ArticleDecent looking Japanese (unicode?) fonts
I'm looking for a font that will be able to translate some text my sensei sent me. I'm trying to design a card for him but for the life of me can not find a decent Japanese font for it (with Kanji,...
View ArticleMatching English and Japanese Typefaces
I'm currently working on a project at university, trying to create a typeface in both English and Japanese that work with each other seamlessly. What Im curious to find out is;- Your thoughts on the...
View ArticleTrouble using Japanese Fonts in Adobe
I've downloaded some free Japanese fonts and want to use them in programs like Illustrator or InDesign. They come as .ttf for Windows and .suit for OS X. Neither have displayed anything but rectangles...
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Tsukurimashou 0.1 - MetaFont meta-family for Japanese, first release
I've posted the first public version of the Tsukurimashou parametric font family on my Web site at http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/160.The main goal of this project is to support my own study of the...
View ArticleChikako Larabie
Chikako Larabie is a font design assistant at Typodermic Fonts in Nagoya, Japan. She specializes in kerning, kerning classes, Latin based language expansion and fractions. She occasionally consults on...
View ArticleStroke contrast in hiragana and katakana
Many Japanese typefaces have areas in which the stroke width reduces to literally nothing in certain areas of certain characters. I don’t have an example handy right this instant, but I can probably...
View ArticlePretty unusual sans-serif
WhatTheFont didn't turn up an exact match but it does look like Lorimer No.2 with a more egg-shaped lower-C and quite a different R. The differences are not subtle enough to convince me this is...
View Articlejapanese & chinese display fonts / webfonts ?
hello!does anyone know if there is any source for japanese & chinese display fonts - or even webfonts - (if there are any)?thank you alex
View ArticleTypeTool and Japanese Fonts
Hi guys!So I'm a graphic design student, and I'm interested in designing Japanese Typefaces. Since I don't have the budget to purchase the Asian Fontlab (and since I foresee type design as a hobby...
View ArticleJapanese Typefaces / Type Designers
I design a magazine, each issue is about a specific city. Previous issues have included Sarajevo, Detroit, London and Athens. The next city is Kyoto. I am trying to get in touch with any type designers...
View ArticleAsian web font equivalents of Helvetica Neue and Baskerville Italic?
I'm an Asian font newbie utterly flummoxed with trying to find appropriate web fonts for a website.For western European languages the site will use Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue Bold and...
View ArticleThis font works in Photoshop but not in Word. Is there a way to fix it?
I have this free font provided by EPSON. It's a very old font that used to be shipped with printer drivers in the 90s. I can use it in Windows without a problem. I now want to use it on my Mac (OSX...
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Japanese font for numbers / arithmetic?
I have seen this font (digits and math symbols only?) in a number of places having to do with Japanese abacus and mental arithmetic practice. If you google "flash anzan" (that is, a rather intense form...
View ArticleJapanese Characters not showing
Hi,I've come into a problem whilst trying to compile a font which contains some Japanese characters. I have a basic Latin character set (MacOS Roman encoding), but with some additional unicode...
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Japanese Font on
Hey! Anyone know what font is used on http://www.avast.co.jp/index? Or any other versatile muti-weighted japanese fonts to use for web and app design? Thanks!
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Vintage Poster Font ID
Hello, I found this vintage poster online, and I really like the font at the bottom of the poster. I tried a couple different methods to try and see if there was a font for it, but didn't find...
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Monotype Now Offers More Than 500 Japanese Fonts
Read more: http://bit.ly/1gKsvu3 Download Japanese Fonts now: http://bit.ly/19RNg5D View Monotype’s OEM Font Catalog: http://bit.ly/1apiFHFMonotype has engaged with several of Japan’s top typeface...
View ArticlePairing Japanese and Latin Type
I am working on an exhibition about Samurai for an American art museum and am looking for designers that I might consult in choosing an appropriate Japanese typeface. Japanese will only be used for...
View ArticleJapanese number font
Dear typophiles,I wonder if you can help me with this; I'm looking for a Japanese font with Japanese characters for numbers. So, not using our own 1-9 'characters' but Japanese characters representing...
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Is't possible to make different glyph for same unicode codepoint with...
As most of contents are now written in unicode, there are some cases where two (or more) slightly different character from different language are emerged into one unicode codepoint, making them shared...
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