Some people say titles with question marks are bullshit but I’m going to ask the bullshit question anyway. Is it time for Apple to reboot CoreText? There is never a […]
Japanese Typography
egword Universal 2.1 Open Alpha v304
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 (U)
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 […]
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