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[absolutedestiny]

OK, I need some help gettings some nice free japanese fonts (full kanji ones).

I don't need anything too fancy, just the kind of font you'd see used in a japanese manga. The Japanese fonts you get with windows are a bit too formal for what I'm looking for.

Any sites or links with sites would be great!

Thanks!

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[trythil.livejournal.com]

http://www.vector.co.jp/soft/dl/data/writing/se093439.html

It doesn't have a _full_ kanji set, but a scan through Character Map seems to say that it includes the frequently used ones, plus a few more.

Quick sample style screenshot:


It has a nice handwritten feel, IMHO. (Please don't ask me why I wrote what I wrote, because chances are I can't give any rational reasoning for it...and I'm sure it's syntactically wrong anyway :P )

[absolutedestiny.livejournal.com]

It looks great....

but it wont load into photoshop.

It's in Word (albeit labelled "???") but it wont appear in the Photoshop list.

I do have Japanese IME support installed on win2k, but I dont know if I need to install additional photoshop support or something.

Maybe I could hack the tff file to change the header or something :/

[trythil.livejournal.com]

Eek.

Doesn't seem to want to show up in Photoshop on my machine either...feck.

...Would producing PDFs from Word be a feasible option? If so, you can import those PDFs into Photoshop:



It's a cumbersome method, but it works...and it may be easier than tweaking the TTF header, as TrueType files have a devilishly complex file format :)

Though, there's always the possibility of another font that has a name in Latin-1...

Katakana

[studiogaijin.livejournal.com]

It doesn't have katakana, huh? :( I guess the "Normal + ひろみ" you have listed as your font in word means that something else picks up the missing characters?

Still, it seems strange that they would put in hiragana and so many kanji and skip something as basic and relatively simple as katakana. Maybe it's a common thing to do though, and I just didn't know... :) Nice font though! I'll probably get some use out of it too.

Re: Katakana

[trythil.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that seemed weird to me, too -- but the katakana are really not there.

*shrug*

so, yeah, that's basically what "Normal + ひろみ" means -- I just had the default Mincho font pick up what didn't display.

[bigbigtruck.livejournal.com]

Osaka and Mincho are the ones I usually use, but those come standard with OSX... I dunno about Windows :(

[absolutedestiny.livejournal.com]

Win2k comes with Mincho and Gothic. I've found a couple of others, but nothing is quite nice enough for what I was wanting.

However, I might be able to still get a decent effect using some blending options.

[spaglet.livejournal.com]

Mincho is traditionalist and probably quite formal (both academic Japanese texts I've had were in Mincho), Gothic is what you generally find in educational texts (so-called "education typeface") aimed at Japanese, or so I was assured. The variations are legion, as this (http://www.ntf.co.jp/syotai.htm) and this (http://www.nisfont.co.jp/home2/products/fontlist/fontlist.html) illustrate. Manga, helpfully, fail to indicate exactly which typefaces they use - but dialogue is either a standardised variant of Gothic, an FX font for weird dialogue, or penji - so I'm not too sure what you're actually after.

[amyblack.livejournal.com]

I'm not savvy when it comes to kanji and the like, so not too sure exactly what you're after.

Are you after letters/words that are infact correct, or just look like they'd be correct when in fact you just wrote 'your mother is a goose' when you infact typed 'I love you'?

Cause, if you just want that, there are several sites I could send ya too for that o.O, but somehow I think you want the correct thing right?

Anyway, check these fonts out (http://www.fontmagic.com/cate/asian1.html)