/wapuro-mincho

"ワープロ明朝" - 80's Japanese word processor style font

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ワープロ明朝 (Wāpuro Mincho)

"ワープロ明朝" is a font that reproduced the smoothing algorithm used in the 80-90's Japanese word processors.

Sample

Directories

  • bdf : Contains the base bitmap font (Jiskan24).
  • converter : Contains a script that generates smoothed outline fonts from bitmap fonts.
  • dist : Generated fonts are placed in this directory.
  • docs : Source code of the web site.

Build

Install the dependent libraries with pip, and build with make.

pip install -r requirements.txt
make

License

  • The font files in the bdf and dist directories are public domain.
  • The script files in converter directory are governed by the MIT license.