- From: Philippe Wittenbergh <ph.wittenbergh@l-c-n.com>
- Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 15:30:01 +0900
- Cc: Ambrose LI <ambrose.li@gmail.com>, Brad Kemper <brad.kemper@gmail.com>, MasaFuji <masa@fuji.email.ne.jp>, www-style list <www-style@w3.org>, Thomas Phinney <tphinney@cal.berkeley.edu>
Daggett wrote: > Ambrose Li wrote: > >> I am not so sure that the original question was even talking >> about artificially condensing and expanding fonts. But >> supposing that it was, maybe we should at least be aware that >> real condensed and expanded fonts generally do not even exist >> in the CJK world, and the only way we can achieve any variation >> in width at all is artificially. > > This is not entirely correct. While families that include a > mixture of widths generally don't exist, newspapers in Japan > often use a slightly expanded (i.e. non-square em-box) face > such as the one below: > > Mainichi Mincho (Morisawa): > http://www.morisawa.co.jp/font/fontlist/details/fontfamily038.html?s=87 There also are condensed Japanese fonts on the market, such as this one: http://www.typeproject.com/product/axis_condensed/specimen_ul.html (that is or has been used by Apple) Philippe --- Philippe Wittenbergh http://l-c-n.com/
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