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Japanese game developers face ridiculously high font license fees following US acquisition of major domestic provider. Live-service games to take the biggest blow (automaton-media.com)
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[–] presoak@lazysoci.al 11 points 3 days ago (2 children)

So design a couple fonts. It ain't rocket science.

[–] RanryuuRain@sh.itjust.works 24 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Japanese fonts are much harder to make than English fonts. Thousands of characters and all that.

[–] expr@programming.dev 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Admittedly I'm not sure if it works for Japanese, but English has online tools you can use to print out a sheet to write out every character and scan to turn into a font file. Would be surprising if it didn't exist for Japanese.

So ultimately you probably just need someone with neat handwriting.

[–] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago

Someone with neat handwriting, a few hours to burn, and lots of patience

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 1 points 2 days ago

Modern fonts have extra stuff to make rendering better.
Like hinting, which changes subpixel representations.

Without those, you wouldn't like the look of something like a character with a height of 10px on a 1080p display and would have to use way higher DPI stuff, with characters taking more pixels.
Won't be unusable though. Automatically done anti-aliasing tends to be good enough too.

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Kanji has over two thousand typical characters. Feel free to contribute several to open-source fonts.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Legitimate use of LLM?

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago

Elsewhere in these comments, someone did suggest generative AI, and frankly, yeah. Using a program to apply a particular art style to a zillion glyphs would be down right commendable, prior to ChatGPT.

[–] presoak@lazysoci.al 1 points 2 days ago

Totally

"Given these hundred fonts, create a new font like them"

Voila!