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Apple - Japanese Typography - Maps - Signage

Apple Is Rebuilding Maps From The Ground Up

Apple Map vans coming to Japan was just a small taste of things to come. Matthew Panzarino got the big scoop on the new Apple Maps. In addition to Apple […]

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Japanese Typography

The State of OpenType Variable Japanese Fonts

Typo Labs 2018 had some interesting updates on OpenType Variable Fonts (OTVF), where they are now and roadmap directions to the future. The most interesting presentation by far was Jason […]

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A bumpy ride for Apple Advanced Typography

One thing has remained constant in Apple’s long strange text layout architecture odyssey from QuickDraw GX to ATSUI to Core Text: with any big change advanced typography is the first […]

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Japanese Typography

macOS Mojave Gets OpenType-SVG Font Support

(aka Means Girls in the Mirror) iOS 12: my Siri still sucks… watchOS 5: my WebKit is too big… macOS Mojave: I have really bad OpenType-SVG fonts. Ew…

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Apple - Japanese Typography - macOS

egword Universal 2 Available for Download

After a 10 year absence the best macOS Japanese word processor app has finally returned. egword Universal 2.1 is available for download from the Mac App Store in Japan. The […]

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egword Universal 2 returns to macOS

Somehow it seems entirely appropriate that with CoreText under fire, Norihito Hirose of MONOKAKIDO announced the official return date of the very first top to bottom CoreText app, egword Universal 2.1. […]

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