From: Christine Snow (christine.k.snow@gmail.com)
Date: Mon Aug 17 2009 - 18:31:08 CDT
Kida,
I can't thank you enough for your email!! You know exactly what I'm talking
about, thank you!
Yes, these are for formal technical documents, corporate marketing documents
for medical device companies, publishing documents, etc.
I greatly appreciate the links to the sites you've given. They sound like
what I need to give the client some options and get us to a final
resolution.
Thank you again, Kida!
Christine
2009/8/12 Yasuo Kida <kida@apple.com>
>
> ... she requires "real" italics to be used, not "fake" italics
> by slanting or skewing the text.
>
>
> It sounds like you are looking for professional results for formal or
> semi-formal documents (not comics etc.).
>
> Like a few people already pointed out, there is no *italic* in Japanese
> typography. Instead of looking for the style, probably one approach you
> could take is to find out why the italic style is used in the original text,
> and find out what techniques are used to achieve the same thing in Japanese
> typography.
>
> Probably changing the weight or size of the font might work. Or I believe
> InDesign-J supports Kenten (http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/圏) which is more
> traditional way for emphasizing a word or a phrase. I am not a design
> professional and I am not the right person to make recommendations or
> suggestions though.
>
> If you are looking for different Japanese typefaces the following site is
> the best one as far as I know. It is in Japanese but probably you can
> navigate through by looking at images.
> http://www.akibatec.net/wabunfont/category/category.html
>
> - kida
>
> On 2009/08/12, at 15:25, Christine Snow wrote:
>
> Exactly. A different font that shows Japanese in a
> script/italic/however-you-want-to-describe-it style. That is what I am
> looking for.
>
> I was hoping for some specific fonts, sites, any info that is proven to
> have worked for someone, or has been useful, instead of recreating the wheel
> and starting from scratch.
>
> Thanks for everyone's responses!
> Christine
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 4:58 PM, Phillips, Addison <addison@amazon.com>wrote:
>
>> I doesn't have any meaning in terms of real Japanese layout. In this case
>> it probably just means "don't oblique a standard font"??
>>
>> It is instructive to note that the word "italic" never appears anywhere in
>> the W3C's "Requirements for Japanese Text Layout" [1]. There is a quite
>> extensive section on emphasis, however.
>>
>> Probably a better option, if the idea is to preserve the visual impact of
>> italics, would be to use a different font, such as one in the "calligraphic"
>> style (as opposed to Mincho or Gothic "printed" style fonts). This will
>> still probably look really weird to Japanese people. But it might be better
>> than, ur, an italic Japanese font?
>>
>> [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/jlreq
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Addison
>>
>> Addison Phillips
>> Globalization Architect -- Lab126
>>
>> Internationalization is not a feature.
>> It is an architecture.
>>
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: unicode-bounce@unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org]
>> > On Behalf Of Clark S. Cox III
>> > Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2009 2:36 PM
>> > To: Christine Snow
>> > Cc: Unicode Mailing List
>> > Subject: Re: Japanese font that includes Italics
>> >
>> >
>> > On Aug 12, 2009, at 1:51 PM, Christine Snow wrote:
>> >
>> > > I am looking for a Japanese font that includes italics option. My
>> > > client has InDesign files that will be localized into Japanese
>> > and
>> > > she requires "real" italics to be used, not "fake" italics by
>> > > slanting or skewing the text.
>> >
>> > What does "real" italics even mean in the context of Japanese text?
>> >
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>
>
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