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by: codeman38

Sat, 05 Nov 2005 01:59:52 +0000

You *really* need to do something about the comment/trackback spam around here.

by: Stephen

Sun, 20 Mar 2005 21:24:49 +0000

mico - Interesting point and I think that's often true among the freebie fonts from both cultures. Of course there are always exceptions. Akira Kobayashi is a Japanese designer who has excelled at creating extremely readable latin alphabets. FF Clifford and FF Acanthus are two of my favorite text faces.

by: mico

Sun, 20 Mar 2005 18:05:25 +0000

I haven’t seen a discussion about the illegibility (to my eyes) of many alphabetic fonts created by some Asian designers.

Seems to me that this phenomenon derives from their approach to glyphs from a purely design standpoint. I’m not certain, but I suspect this approach affects the legibility of Japanese fonts to a lesser degree than it does for alphabetic fonts.

I hasten to say that there are exceptions to this on both sides: highly legible Japanese-designed alphabetic fonts and extremely illegible (grunge?) alphabetic fonts designed by Westerners.

Any thoughts?

by: El Duque

Sat, 19 Mar 2005 17:20:50 +0000

Garbled characters? On a font site?

Sweet.

by: JOE

Fri, 18 Mar 2005 20:39:00 +0000

A lot of people are terrified of the garbled characters. I had a support call where the user was convinced that their machine had a virus because the visited a Japanese website and the words were not in english.