Major Japanese free font foundry with techno, katakana, hiragana, comic book Latin, techno and game fonts. In 2020, she joined Neil Summerour's Positype Flourish foundry. In 2019, she participated in the intensive course, and that resulted in the friendly serif typeface Companion, which was designed for use in small sizes, and, in particular, for typesetting information in food labels. In 2017, she attended Torinoumi Osamu's one-year Japanese Type Design Program, Mojijuku (a Japanese type design course) where she created her first Japanese font for Hiragana, Katakana and Kanji. īorn in Singapore, Acra is a brand designer based in Tokyo specializing in typography, calligraphy and letterforms. This savings in space by reusing pierces of font outlines is useful for high quality (scalable) fonts on mobile devices and digital TVs. And unlike other compact font formats, such as stroke or stick fonts, the quality of Ascender Compact Asian Fonts is such that no embedded bitmaps are necessary for typical screen sizes. By using component outlines, versus entire character outlines, ACAF offers significant benefits over standard TrueType or OpenType font formats. Their blurb at the launch in 2006: ACAF uses proprietary techniques to render the complex ideographs found in Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese and Korean (CJK) scripts.

ĪCAF stands for Ascender Compact Asian Fonts. Japanese page that explains the various electronic font formats. ĭesigner of the handwritten kanji/kana/Latin/Cyrillic typeface Hikaisho (2003). Ĭommercial Japanese foundry with beautiful fonts: Zen Old Minchou R, Marumin Old, Kurenaido, Zen Antique, Dots, Zen Loop, Zen Loop Italic.

Yasutaka Sato's free techno and/or pixel fonts made between 20 include Asos19101357, Asos19101357BoldItalic, Asosbeats01, Curvic, CurvicOblique, HDF, Lignor, Linernix, and Thundercity.įontspace link.

I think that the fonts can be bought through Shift Factory. Japanese foundry with some commercial fonts. 'Minmes', aka '55', is the designer of SmallFont 4th (2002) and SmallFont 6ty (2002), both extreme pixel fonts. Interesting archive with MSMincho, MSGothic, Wadalab Gothic, dfpop9, hgrgep, hgrskp, hgrsmp, all Japanese fonts in truetype. Four free fonts, all called Mild, at this Japanese site. Mac and PC: ApeliumK (1999) and Receipt43 families. Original katakana fonts and dot fonts by Taishi Yokoyama. Another URL.ĭafont link, Abstract Fonts link.

Japanese designer of Beech (psychedelic), Broccoli, Beech, Chicory, Carrot, Sixgun (dot font) and Horseradish. TYPE DESIGN INFORMATION PAGE last updated onįree pixelized fonts by Yuji Oshimoto: the 04b family.

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