For all of you other nerdy designers out there, typographers, digital artists, ect… I found this really interesting… Japanese Typography - The Japanese Foundry Scene Goes to show how much really goes into designing a different font, and how much more so with Japanese, as there are SO many more cha…

Cool, thanks. I wonder how much longer it takes to design a Japanese typeface and how much more expensive they are. I also wonder if there’s a Japanese equivalent to Comic Sans in terms of prevalence vs popularity with designers…

That’s a pretty nice resource! I roughly know a few of the challenges involved in designing typefaces. Japanese fonts, as well as other full-spaced character fonts don’t have to deal with a major difficulty: kerning their primary characters, the process of adjusting the spacing between characters. …

[image] Gorgophone: I also wonder if there’s a Japanese equivalent to Comic Sans Yes, it’s called Manga Sans.

This is awesome! I am a total type nerd and seeing that Japan has a good foundry scene makes me happy. I think working at one of these companies would be a dream job for me (and I can see some of them have sites that could use some love).

Maybe some of you have seen this before, but these guys go around Japan finding cool store signs that were hand painted back in the day, they then design a full typeface based on the sign and sell goods on their website featuring the font - the money from sales goes back to the original shop owner i…

Love this! Have you seen this “city fonts” tumblr? nodoca book here ↓ [image] まちの文字図鑑よきかなひらがな日本全国で集めた個性豊かな「まちの文字」の図鑑。第一弾は、ひらがな編。ブックデザイナーの著者が集めた町の文字の中から、デザイン的に優れた約350のひらがなを厳選して五十音順に掲載、字源とともに紹介している。ページをめくると、とりあげられた文字の全体像と所在地が現れる。... Price: JPY 2200 …

That is awesome!! I’m in love with the concept and execution! I’m a total sucker for this kind of thing lol I also love how when you preview the font on their site the storefront grows along with the sign. Nice touch (even though it’s programmed in Flash)

Ohh man… this book looks amazing. Definitely triggers my inner nerd. Thanks for sharing, this would be a perfect coffee table book. Also confirms that I need to use Tumblr more often.

Wow, all of this is so cool! I know next to nothing about design, but I love fonts! How does one get into this stuff/using this stuff? Do you use it just for websites or other personal things?

Fonts are useful for everything! You can design websites, posters, logos, personal shirt designs, and whatever else you can think of. It’s often hard for me to find shirt designs that I like online so sometimes I design my own and get them printed or I’ve even hand-inked some before. Photoshop is e…

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plantron March 16, 2017, 6:53pm 4

Yes, it’s called Manga Sans.

Considering changing the font-weight of radicals, kanji, and vocabulary

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