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  • I tried making a font of kanji

    I think i realized why no one tried making one before: There's too many characters to draw in a consistent style

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    Created on 17th June 2020. Last edited on 10th February 2024.
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Very good attempt! Honestly, FontStructor isn't the best program for making Kanji fonts, because of the fixed grid, it's very hard to create any good fonts for more complex scripts.

Comment by ctrl_alt_font 5th august 2020

I agree, this program is however perfect for pixel fonts like my RetRoman and Pixelvetica projects

Comment by JOEY_TOYS_ 26th august 2020

What's the junk at the start?

Comment by senpaifurret 27th august 2020

I've been trying to find out how to make kanji on here for ever. I am trying to replicate the style and font of an old japanese utauloid artist who shall not be named for reasons I will not go in to. I have a pretty consistent style with all the Kanji I've made in MSPaint so far in his style. All of them have been 7x7 pixels or something close to that. If there is kanji or chinese support on FontStruct, please tell me. I really want to have a font with kanji support, and none of the other 10 programs I've tried are as good as FontStruct, nor do they allow pixelated fonts by editing each and every pixel. Here is the font so far. I only have all of the hiragana and some katakana: https://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/1983826/kstyle-3 .

Comment by WillAnimates 1st september 2021

@WillAnimates you can see all the kanji in existence by clicking "Expert Mode" then doing "advanced > unicode letter sets" in the menu. the kanji are in the character lists beginning with "CJK Unified Ideographs". there are quite a lot (like around 93,000 of them)!

Comment by merrybot_v2 2nd september 2021

The glyph limit per font is 65,535* so you may want to make it across two or more fonts if you do create every CJK letter that exists in Unicode (plane 0's in one font, plane 2's in another another, and plane 3's in yet another font)…

*Well, you can still save it, but the downloaded file will most likely break beyond this limit…

Comment by Bryndan W. Meyerholt (BWM) 2nd september 2021

@bwm technically they aren't letters but ideographshssnmshsnshshsshshshs i think

Comment by merrybot_v2 2nd september 2021

https://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/2537248/openliminal-14

i also attempted to do unihan too

Comment by Kusanagi34675 10th march 2025

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