Each glyph of TA-Hougan is designed within a 10 x 10 grid centered in the EM body whose square is divided into twelve equal sections, like graph paper. Only straight horizontal, vertical, and diagonal lines are used. The overall typographic effect is prioritized, though a few glyphs may look unusual. As strokes are aligned on a grid, many strokes share the same positions and angles, and the slopes are well aligned, because the angle is limited to 45-degrees. With only a few characters, you can easily create a logotype effect.
The reason only horizontal, vertical, and diagonal lines are used is to not only provide better alignment of strokes but also avoid undesirable darkening at corners where strokes cross each other, especially at sharper angles. By limiting the possible angles at crossings to 45 or 90 degrees, optical illusions are also minimized. Although this approach leads to some extreme glyph shapes, it provides interesting visual effects.
The Hougan family has linear gothic (K) and rounded gothic (M) styles, each of which includes the following four weights 250, 375, 500, 625 (the larger the number the heavier the weight). K500 is one of the linear style gothic fonts.
This font contains 2,286 characters from the Joyo Kanji List and Jinmei-yo Kanji characters, as well as additional 206 characters including kana characters, punctuation marks and Latin characters, etc.
In Japanese font production today, the 7,000 characters in the JIS standard are considered essential. But, do all fonts really need 7,000 characters? In the age of phototypesetting, far fewer characters were needed. FONT1000, a group of independent type designers, started with that simple question. We have selected the minimum 1,000 kanji (ideographic) characters needed for typesetting in Japanese and actively created typefaces and fonts to support it. This 1,000-kanji-character set was selected using character frequency data compiled by newspaper companies, publishing houses and linguistic research organizations, etc., and also includes kana syllabic characters and punctuation marks. FONT1000 was formed in 2001 with 25 designers and 25 typefaces. Today we have 130 typefaces and have grown to include nearly 40 members, making it possible to work on fonts with more characters.
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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:
TA-hougan_k500 RegularWeb
To use this font on your website, use the following CSS:
font-family: ta-hougan-k500, sans-serif;
font-style: italicnormal;
font-weight: 400;
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