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 and was blinded seeing the first Graphical User Interface: this is the way it’s supposed to work. Stroke fonts are […]
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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 typography related writing, it’s fitting to post about Apple’s text layout architecture evolution one last time. There have been a […]
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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 website until 2021 is tantamount to not doing business at all. That it has taken them some 30 years to […]
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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 plug-in font scalers were up in the air without a clear migration path to the newly announced MacOS X ATSUI […]