Confused About Japanese Fonts

[Kumirei]

See the script’s thread for instructions

@obskyr

Jitai will only use fonts that you have installed. Chances are you don’t have a lot of Japanese fonts, so I would recommend installing the freejapanesefont.com fonts shown in the list on GitHub . If you’d like to add a font that isn’t in the list, that’s pretty easy too! Just edit the script (as shown in @Mempo’s tutorial), read the comments at the top, and add your font to the list as shown.

Make sure you set the correct font name – on Windows, it’s the name shown at the top of the font display window.

Currently, the fonts used (provided you have them) out of the box are:

• The default Japanese fonts on Windows
• An aesthetically diverse set of the default Japanese fonts on OS X
• The most common Japanese fonts used on Linux
• A couple of families people tend to want to use (EPSON families, cinecaption, etc.)
• A set of fonts from freejapanesefont.com
• For a full list of the immediately supported fonts and where to get them, see the list of fonts on GitHub .