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JAPANESE FONTS FROM IBMAscender is pleased to offer IBM's Japanese fonts to software and hardware developers. Click here to read the Ascender Press Release on IBM fonts. The Heisei fonts are an industry standard in Japan. They were some of the first typefaces designated by a group of type foundries formed by the Japanese Standards Association (JSA). As a member of the JSA and as part of its commitment to support high quality typography, IBM commissioned the development of their own Heisei families to use in its products. There are three font styles available:
Heisei Kaku Gothic
Now for the first time these renowned fonts are available to developers to include with their products. For more information on the Heisei fonts please contact us.
About the Heisei Fonts Heisei Kaku Gothic is a modern Gothic, or sans-serif, design whose kanji glyphs have simple stroke shapes. Its hiragana and katakana characters have slightly curved strokes, offering a good balance between simplified and traditional letterforms. The standard weight is designed for use with Heisei Mincho. Heisei Maru Gothic is a traditional round gothic typeface with relatively larger counter-spaces. This gives it a kind of openness and brightness. There are no unnecessary stroke features so printing on low-resolution output devices is optimized. Heisei Mincho is a modern Mincho design with relatively large counter-spaces and simplified strokes utilizing many straight lines. For better reproduction on low-resolution output devices, its horizontal stroke width is heavier than other standard Mincho typefaces. Lighter weights of Heisei Mincho are suitable for printing books and business documents.
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