Jitai (字体): The font randomizer that fits

UInt2048 · July 15, 2020, 4:33pm

That’s the blanket falling off the bed from sleeping.

darkness_rising · July 20, 2020, 1:17am

I’m also having trouble getting the fonts that I’ve downloaded to work

Edit: just restarted my computer; they work now

Kayleigh-K · July 30, 2020, 8:11am

I just wanted to say this is such a flippin awesome script. I installed it a few days ago and man, that ArmandBanana is crazy.
Thanks so much for this.

JuiceS · September 18, 2020, 3:38pm

Works like a charm. So I guess the next days I’ll go crazy with installing new fonts. gg

Screenbones · September 27, 2020, 9:15pm

Just thought I’d point out - the FC Flower font on the GitHub page is broken. Shame, too, that font actually looked really pretty. (Guess that would be the point, given it’s name)

obskyr · September 28, 2020, 7:32am

Fixed it! Thanks for the heads-up!

Abikin · September 28, 2020, 6:58pm

When I download the fonts, do I need to put them somewhere in particular so that the script knows that I have them? I’m on a Mac with current version of Mac OS.

Right now I have a bunch of fonts in my download folder, and I don’t think this I where I want to keep them. I tried to copy them to System>Library>Fonts but I was not able to do that.

My apologies if this question was already asked, it’s quite a long thread.

Kjwoods · September 28, 2020, 8:59pm

I am also a complete noob when it comes to installing fonts…

I downloaded a bunch of free fonts, and have a japanese keyboard, but for some reason it only shows me the alphanumeric characters?

Edit: also I’m on Mac with Chrome and Tampermonkey, will this script work with this setup?
Edit2: It does work with Chrome and Tampermonkey just fine.

Screenbones · September 28, 2020, 9:25pm

On the install screen, it should show the Alphanumeric letters… macOS assumes you’re intending to use it to type in English. Either way, the Japanese characters are present.

Screenbones · September 28, 2020, 9:27pm

If it’s like Windows, you should be able to just double-click the files, and macOS should take care of the rest.

Kjwoods · September 28, 2020, 9:59pm

Thanks a lot. It turns out I was doing it right then. It just threw me for a loop to be installing a Japanese font that suddenly only looked English

Abikin · September 28, 2020, 10:42pm

aha! so simple! But I never would have just thought of doing that, so thank you!!

When I did that, a new finder window opened, and the new fonts were in a folded called User that only had those fonts. On the left sidebar there was another option for “All Fonts”. There I found a huge list with many options that contained Japanese glyphs, so I added those to the list at the bottom of the userscript as well. So now I will restart and hope to be thrilled!!

Some (included the infamous Armed Banana) were in a format that I could not open - oh well

UInt2048 · September 29, 2020, 1:00am

What format is that? When I search - I find a TTF - which is arguably the most supported format. (Note I’m also using macOS )

Abikin · September 29, 2020, 1:32am

Oh interesting, I think it was .lzh or similar. There were a few like that but maybe I should look again at the pages for those fonts that didn’t work for me.

And, I do indeed have a slew of new fonts in play now - yay!!!

Edit - I did find Armed Banana as a .ttf and, for better or worse, have installed it

MelissaAnne42 · September 29, 2020, 11:25am

.lzh is an archive format, like .zip. Keka (Keka - the macOS file archiver) can open them.

Abikin · September 29, 2020, 1:14pm

Ah - thank you!

omoide · October 18, 2020, 4:21pm

Thanks for this tip shared back in 2018.

These days, I am not pleased with the look of the currenty used font (Meiryo), and I confirmed that Meiryo is used even I select ‘Yu Gothic’ in the Firefox preferences.
Even when TMonkey scripts or CSS sheets are disabled.
And issue is the same in IE, so it seems to be a system-level issue (Windows10).

When I tried typing in FF’s console:

$('#character').css('font-family')

it returns:

"Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro, Meiryo, Source Han Sans Japanese, NotoSansCJK, TakaoPGothic, Yu Gothic, ヒラギノ角ゴ Pro W3, メイリオ, Osaka, MS PGothic, ＭＳ Ｐゴシック, Noto Sans JP, sans-serif"

So I would expect the 1st item of the list (Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro) to be used.

If i enforce the 1st listed font by typing:
$('#character').css('font-family', 'Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro')
… it looks much better… :

… than the one which is currently used (‘Meiryo’):

So can someone please explain:

how can I change the system font used in Windows10? Can I change it from default Meiryo to something else?
how come the font order returned by the console is not respected in FF?

Thanks & Regards

UInt2048 · October 26, 2020, 7:50pm

I don’t know but you might consider actually installing Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro on your machine…

omoide · October 27, 2020, 9:33am

You may have missed that part, but the font is already installed, else it would not show the 1st snapshot.

UInt2048 · October 27, 2020, 5:43pm

You could get Tampermonkey and make a one-line userscript with that if you need to…