Sha-Ken finally got a website, listing themselves as Sha-Ken Co., Ltd. Big deal so what, except that it’s not 1991 or even 2001. A font company doing business without a […]
Japanese Typography
End of PostScript Type 1 font support
Adobe recently announced the end of PostScript Type 1 font support in January 2023. Unlike the Latin based Type 1, Japanese Original Composite PostScript Type 1 (OCF) fonts that went […]
Japanese Typography
The Seybold Legacy
I was fortunate to write for the Seybold Report in the last few years of its original incarnation in Media PA. Jonathan Seybold was gone by then but the editors […]
Japanese Typography
Apple’s Once and Future Japanese Variable System Font
2020 is the coming out party for Apple designed OpenType variable fonts, both the SF Pro and SF Compact system fonts and the all-new New York font shipping in iOS […]
Japanese Typography
Requiem for Sha-Ken
The once mighty Sha-Ken KK, who’s founder co-created the modern Japanese typesetter with Morisawa in 1924 and a huge, highly profitable font library that once dominated the entire Japanese print […]
Japanese Typography
The Second Wave of Japanese Desktop Publishing
This article was published in The Seybold Report Volume 30 Number 6, November 2000. It was a strange time when QuickDraw GX 3rd party developments like Japanese stroke fonts and […]