Archive for September, 2014

The Three Musketeers (三銃士)

Posted on September 23, 2014 by Dr. Ken Lunde | Comments (2)

Our most recent project, Source Han Sans, led me to much closer collaboration with our three-person typeface design and development team in our Tokyo office, which is managed by the Taro YAMAMOTO (山本太郎), with Ryoko NISHIZUKA (西塚涼子) as the primary typeface designer, and Masataka HATTORI (服部正貴) serving multiple roles, but mainly typeface design and production. The purpose of this article is to describe this team, with which I have worked for over 20 years on various projects, and its accomplishments from my perspective.
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IUC38

Posted on September 17, 2014 by Dr. Ken Lunde | Comments (0)

Now that the Version 1.001 update for Source Han Sans (源ノ角ゴシック), in the form of sources and installable fonts, is under my belt, my attention has now turned to my IUC38 (The 38th Internationalization & Unicode Conference) presentation, which is entitled Deploying & Developing The World’s First Open Source Pan-CJK Typeface Family. Much of what was involved in building these fonts—to include some of the hurdles that needed to be overcome—will be detailed in this presentation.

For those who use social media, you can follow IUC38 developments via the #IUC38 hashtag.

Oh, and I am also pleased to state that Adobe is once again a Gold Sponsor of this event, for the eighth year in a row.

Source Han Sans: OTF, OTC, Super OTC, or Subset OTF?

Posted on September 14, 2014 by Dr. Ken Lunde | Comments (2)

Before I begin the series of articles about what went into building Source Han Sans, I think that it is worth writing a few things about actually installing and using the fonts, including how to determine which of the four deployment formats best suits your needs.
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