The start point is the end point. The first time I saw Japanese stroke fonts in action, I had the same revelation Steve Jobs did when he visited Xerox PARC […]
Japanese Typography
TextKit 2 and Apple text layout architecture evolution
No matter what kind of fancy fonts you have, they look bad with poor typography. Tomihisa Uchida, former lead font engineer of Sha-Ken, FontWorks, Iwata Font As I wrap my […]
Japanese Typography
Sha-Ken finally launches a website
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 […]
Apple
Power and Responsibility and Cultural Respect
It took me a while to fully appreciate the issue that Twitter user Yoshimasa Niwa was describing. At first glance I and many others assumed that setting Japanese over English […]
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 […]