Monokakido‘s Hirose san is busy cranking out egword Universal 2.1 updates with new versions coming every few days, now up to v304. It’s a great tool for beautiful Japanese vertical […]
Cool Japan - Japanese Typography
Funky Japanese Station Sign Tape Fonts
Shinjuku JR station is the O’Hare Airport of my youth, a never-ending construction project migrating from section to section in an endless loop. Japanese train stations like Shinjuku and Tokyo are […]
Apple - Japanese Typography - macOS
egword Universal 2 Open Alpha
Monokakido‘s Hirose san has been busy not only updating apps for iOS 11, he has also been busy updating egword Universal 2 code after sitting on a shelf for 10 […]
Japanese Typography
Return of the best macOS Japanese word processor app: egword Universal 2
In 2007 I visited the office of Ergosoft near Yokohama for what turned out to be the last time. Ergosoft had just released a spectacular upgrade to their Japanese word […]
Japanese Typography
Migration to MacOS X in the Japanese Publishing Market
An old article charting the history of MacOS X in Japan and a snapshot of the Japanese pre-press industry in 2000. In retrospect, OpenType fonts with embedding in PDF along […]