In preparations for Windows Vista release, Microsoft realized that their current Japanese fonts (mainly MS Gothic and MS Mincho) are incompatible with their ClearType subpixel rendering technology and decided to create a new one. Meiryo (Free) is my favorite free Japanese font. It is characterized by plain rectangular strokes with equal width and no serifs and its main benefit is great legibility at small sizes. Gothic type, also called Kaku Gothic, is nearly as popular as Ming. It’s rather expensive, but well worth the money if you are a designer in need of a professional Japanese font. TB Mincho ($100) is a great Mincho font by the famous Japanese TypeBank foundry. It’s main characteristics are the presence of small serifs vertical stroke width (vertical strokes are generally narrower than horizontal strokes). Mincho typeface, also known as Ming or Song, is the most used font style in print for Chinese and Japanese. Here’s a collection of some of my favourite kana and kanji fonts, categorized by shōtai: Minchō Whether you’re a designer working for Japanese clients or just want to impress your Japanese girlfriend or boyfriend with your Photoshop skills, you’ll soon become bored with the very limited choice of Japanese typefaces that comes with your operating system, be it Windows, OSX, or Linux.
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