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.

Directories

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

Build

Install the dependent libraries with pip, and run build.sh.

python3 -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
./build.sh otf

License

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