Meiryo is a Japanese typeface that is designed to be easy to read onscreen. It is a clean, simple, straightforward sans serif typeface with a “Verdana” feel; it’s Latin letters are in fact based on Matthew Carter’s Verdana typeface. Meiryo is especially well suited to long passages of body text. It was designed with horizontal typesetting in mind, although it can also be used to set Japanese text vertically.
Meiryo has two weights, regular and bold; the Latin letters include italic and bold italic styles, though the Japanese has no italic.
Meiryo was designed as one of Microsoft’s ClearType font collection in 2004. Type designer Eiichi Kono intended Meiryo to make reading onscreen easier in Japanese. The Japanese kanji take advantage of traditions for simplifying forms in calligraphy in order to keep complex characters legible at low resolution. The Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic letters in Meiryo was designed by Matthew Carter, who had previously designed Verdana for reading onscreen in Western languages.
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How to Use
You may encounter slight variations in the name of this font, depending on where you use it. Here’s what to look for.
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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