This entry was posted in Feature, News on Apby Arno Bosse. An animation demonstrating this is shown on the Overview page. Japanese Brush Master contains 1 styles and family package options. You can see Japanese Radicals in action on the 214 traditional Japanese radicals page where you’ll also find information on why we created it and where to download it for free.įinally, with the Kanji alive web app you can easily compare our hand-drawn kanji animations with four different, commercial Morisawa typefaces especially approved by the Japanese Ministry of Culture for learning purposes: Kyokashotai (textbook), Mincho, Gothic and Maru. Japanese Brush Master by Okaycat Individual Styles from 29.95 Japanese Brush Master Font Family was designed by Natsuko Hayashida and published by Okaycat. This is why we decided to use Source Han Sans as the basis for our own, radicals only font. Source Han Sans is quite similar looking to M+ and has even better support for Japanese characters. Go download the best DF Tegaki Warabe Japanese Aya-W 3 font for free. The Kanji alive web app ( ) uses M+ extensively because it offers an attractive design which is also easy to read. Both are open-source and freely available. For learning to read kanji, we particularly recommend the M+ family as well as Source Han Sans. Postscript: Once you’ve successfully set-up your computer to use Meiryo, we encourage you to also take a look at some other high-quality, Japanese fonts as possible additions or alternatives. Now enjoy reading Japanese on the web in an attractive, award winning font! In Windows 7 you can adjust its settings using the ClearType tuner.Īfter making these changes, log out of Windows and then login again to ensure that all your settings take effect. After that, use the ClearType Web tuner or downloadable PowerToy Tuner to tune your ClearType settings. In Windows 7 and Windows 8 ClearType is turned on by default. Windows XP users should first enable ClearType. In truth, this step is optional, since not everyone likes the system-wide, text smoothing effect this produces. Now you just need to enable or adjust Windows ClearType to get the most of Meiryo, especially at larger font sizes. Update (8/2013): An alternative to Kitano’s Meiryo extension is the Advanced Fonts Settings extension which allows you to specify Chrome’s font settings on a language by language basis.Īlmost done. Akio Kitano’s Meiryo extension for Chrome

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