In January 2021, Morisawa and Sha-Ken announced they would ‘co-develop’ the Sha-Ken font library for OpenType (English press release here), due for release in 2024 in celebration of the Japanese […]
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 […]
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
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 […]
Japanese Typography
Japanese Text Layout for the Future* (hint: there isn’t one)
I finally had time to catch Adobe Nat McCully’s ATypl Tokyo 2019 presentation. He covers a topic I have covered many times before: the (sad) state of CJK typography. As […]
Japanese Typography
Apple Advanced Typography Request #999
The new SF Symbols system font is a fantastic addition to iOS, macOS, etc. and it is an OpenType (née QuickDraw GX TrueType) variable font to boot. But please, Apple, […]