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From: dhosek@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Don Hosek)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: Re: Hiragana and Katakana fonts
Message-ID: <2413@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Date: 12 Oct 89 22:04:04 GMT
References: <30162@watmath.waterloo.edu> <1486@intercon.com>
Reply-To: dhosek@jarthur.UUCP (Don Hosek)
Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA
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[with regard to Adobe's Kanji fonts]
In article <1486@intercon.com> amanda@intercon.com (Amanda Walker) writes:
>In article <30162@watmath.waterloo.edu>, echrzanowski@watmath.waterloo.edu
>(Edward Chrzanowski) writes:
>> Does anyone know how these are like or whether
>> they can be brought out of Japan?
>
>They're *gorgeous*.  I have a beautiful sample page of Kanji (the style is
>whatever the Japanese call the equivalent of Chinese Kai-Shu). 

Talking to colleagues in Japan, the most common sentiment about the Adobe
Kanji font is that it is rather ugly and hard to read. The only samples
I have are a gargantuan multi-page printout of Adobe's JIS table, so I
have never gotten a chance to see them in use, however.

-dh

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