Heisei Kaku Gothic is a modern gothic, or sans serif, design whose kanji glyphs have simple stroke shapes, but whose glyphs for hiragana and katakana characters have subtly curved strokes, offering a good balance between simplified and traditional letterform construction. The standard weight W5 is designed for use with Heisei Mincho W3. Four weights, W3 through W9 in odd-numbered increments, are available. One weight, W5, is also available as an updated “StdN” version that includes over 4,500 additional glyphs, supports the JIS X 0213 standard in its entirety, and is JIS2004-savvy.
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JIS Character Coverage
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JISX0208
Specifies the most commonly used characters in Japanese, including 6,355 kanji and several hundred kana, punctuation, and other symbols.
Adobe Standard
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Adobe-Japan1-3
This font supports only the glyphs described in the glyph set standard finalized by Adobe in 1998, which includes pre-rotated forms for all glyphs that are not full-width.
Default Glyph Style
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JIS90
Uses the JIS 90 glyph variants by default. Example:
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How to Use
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Desktop
In application font menus, this font will display:
{{familyCtrl.selectedVariation.preferred_family_name}} {{familyCtrl.selectedVariation.preferred_subfamily_name}}Web
To use this font on your website, use the following CSS:
font-family: {{familyCtrl.selectedVariation.family.css_font_stack.replace('"', '').replace('",', ', ')}};
font-style: italicnormal;
font-weight: {{familyCtrl.selectedVariation.font.web.weight}};
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