Timeline for Are there any Japanese fonts with a similar style to the English font "Diploma Regular"?
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| Jul 14, 2022 at 8:42 | comment | added | r3mainer | Really nice work there! | |
| Jul 13, 2022 at 11:02 | comment | added | Billy Kerr | @JanusBahsJacquet Maybe as long as you don't add serifs, not all Black Letter styles necessarily have big serifs, but just keep to the basic 45 degree strokes, perhaps a few flourishes, but nothing too fancy. It also might need a finer nib for more complex characters. I tried this with one of the characters you mentioned. | |
| Jul 13, 2022 at 10:19 | comment | added | Janus Bahs Jacquet | @BillyKerr Yes, kana (both katakana and hiragana) are in origin quickly written calligraphic simplifications of characters (kanji). I suspect some of the more complex characters (like 憂, 鬱, 虁 or 齉) would be virtually impossible to add blackletter-style serifs and details to without it becoming a complete mess. | |
| Jul 13, 2022 at 10:07 | comment | added | Billy Kerr | @JanusBahsJacquet - That's so interesting. Perhaps they are just a bit too stylised to be readable. It's often the case with Latin Gothic scripts too, some are just a bit too fancy. I notice that Japanese katakana characters are pretty simple in comparison to kanji (Chinese) characters. So, perhaps katakana may be more suitable for this kind of treatment, and also if you don't try to deviate too much from the standard characters. | |
| Jul 12, 2022 at 21:46 | comment | added | Janus Bahs Jacquet | @AndrewT. I agree that the hand-drawn katakana in the answer are perfectly legible, but the Chinese font – while lovely to look at – is pretty much illegible to me. I couldn’t even read the full name of it: 哥 is obvious for the first character; I couldn’t tell whether the second was 特 or 持; and I was completely lost on the third (even knowing it’s 汉, I still don’t see it). That seems to go for the entire font: some obvious, some doubtful, some just completely impossible to guess. | |
| Jul 12, 2022 at 20:58 | comment | added | Billy Kerr | @CM138 - it was hand made by me. | |
| Jul 12, 2022 at 18:53 | comment | added | CM138 | In Japanese characters example image you showed was that hand made by you? or is it a font that found online? | |
| Jul 12, 2022 at 18:38 | comment | added | Billy Kerr | @AndrewT - thanks for the info. That's really interesting. | |
| Jul 12, 2022 at 18:23 | comment | added | Andrew T. | Just a remark for the Chinese Gothic font: In addition to kanji which both Japanese and Chinese use (although some kanji may be slightly different even for the same character), the Japanese language also has hiragana and katakana (which are used in this question). And as the answer has mentioned regarding readability, the katakana in this answer might be quite readable, but I couldn't recognize some of the kanji in Chinese Gothic. | |
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| Jul 12, 2022 at 11:11 | history | answered | Billy Kerr | CC BY-SA 4.0 |