Hello, please look at the stylization for the candy 飴 kanji. [image] When it’s differently stylized I can’t read it at all and have to relearn it. Does this happen often? Does anyone have some tricks to better retain their knowledge of the kanji, even with different fonts?

I believe in handwriting it is often written like the top version. Because 飴 is a non-Joyo Kanji it was not affected by the official typeset reforms , but modern fonts now sometimes resemble the handwritten style.

Different stylized writing, does this happen a lot?

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Belthazar June 18, 2020, 11:44am 10

On the grand scheme of things, that’s actually quite a minor change. Try out this thread for some typography examples to compare it to.

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Different stylized writing, does this happen a lot?

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