Today, I would like to introduce “The Structure of Brush Erosion: Phenomenology of Writing,” written by Kyuyoh Ishikawa. This book is a philosophical theory of writing that goes beyond the b…

API, in which font editor and the rendering engine are operated from the programming language, can be thought of as a format. In particular, I would like to introduce Glyphs API, which is us…

Use of the format called “UFO (Unified Font Object)” has been increasing in the field of font development recently. In UFO, data is saved as individual files and also described in highly rea…

The question “What kinds of characters are you interested in or would you like to design apart from Japanese characters (kanji, hiragana, katakana, and the Latin alphabet)?” was asked to sta…

PostScript is called the page description language; it is a programming language developed by Adobe to define data for printing. As a familiar example, the internal structure of a PDF is bas…

The question “What kinds of characters are you are interested in or would you like to design apart from Japanese characters (kanji, hiragana, katakana, and the Latin alphabet)?” was asked to…

For several times starting from this article, I would like to refer to various formats. In any format, a rendering command of Bézier curves is common. The specific writing method is summariz…

Today, I would like to introduce “Creating Characters: Nine Typeface Designers,” written by Yuki Akari. In a structure of interviews, making typefaces, and typesetting samples, this book int…

Following the previous article on a “glyph that you feel is difficult to design,” this time, the question “What is a glyph that is relatively easy to design?” was asked to staff at the Type …

The question “What is a glyph that you feel is difficult to design?” was asked to staff at the Type Project. Answers mentioning the number of strokes were introduced in the previous article….

The question “What is a glyph that you feel is difficult to design?” was asked to staff at the Type Project. The answers to this question vary depending on the person. There were several ans…

Collected symbols, such as circles, triangles, square figures, weather marks, etc., vary depending on the font set. It is a point to show the figures in visually the same size, not to arrang…

Today, I would like to introduce “Table of Characters,” written by Kyoko Masaki. This is a collection of essays in which the full flavor of typesetting and typeface mainly experienced by the…

The question “What is the first glyph you create in typeface design?” was asked to staff at the Type Project. Among the answers from the Japanese designers, “あ” is mentioned as a specific gl…

Similar to the previously-mentioned parentheses, there are several types of arrows. Depending on the arrow, each glyph must be prepared up and down, left and right. Using the same shape for …

Today, I would like to introduce “A Compilation of Contemporary Letter Designs.” This is the new reprint edition of “A Compilation of Contemporary Letter Designs,” originally published in 19…

The question “What is your favorite glyph among numbers and symbols?” was asked to staff at the Type Project. There are a variety of numbers and symbols included in each font, and the number…