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A (free) font to celebrate Lithuanian independence

March 27, 2018 by John Yunker

As a font geek, I loved this promotion courtesy of the Republic of Lithuania to develop a font that draws on the signatures from the Act of Independence of Lithuania. You can even add your signature to mark the centenary …

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Categories Languages, Lithuania, Translation

NOTO, as in No Tofu

December 2, 2016November 28, 2016 by John Yunker

First of all, I love tofu. But when you see it on a computer screen, it’s not so nice. Like those two rows of “tofu-shaped” objects shown below that indicate a missing font: Tofu used to be a much bigger problem …

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Categories Google, Languages, Mobile, Software Localization, Unicode, Web Globalization

Adobe and Google release open source CJK font family

July 31, 2014 by John Yunker

This is the result of a massive investment of resources and expertise — and I’m excited they’ve made it open source. From Adobe: Source Han Sans, available in seven weights, is a typeface family which provides full support for Japanese, Korean, Traditional …

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Categories Adobe, China, Google, Japan

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