TypeBank UD Mincho is a universal design serif typeface with greater legibility and readability, while carrying on the tradition of the stately Mincho type. Because most of the Mincho types have thin horizontal strokes, some displays and signs are difficult to read especially for people with vision problems. TypeBank UD Mincho bases its design on TypeBank Yokofuto Mincho whose horizontal lines are thicker than those of traditional Mincho types. For the universal design version, dakuten (゛) and handakuten (゜) voicing marks are designed to be more legible, and the letterforms are adjusted to maintain their balance while having a larger face and wider counters.
Morisawa Inc. is Japan’s leading font foundry that has never wavered from its commitment to undertaking research and development in typography since its establishment in 1924 – the year it invented the first Japanese phototypesetting machine. The company provides font licenses for over 1,500 typefaces of Japanese and multi-script, web font services, embedded fonts, and multilingual e-magazine/book solution services. Their library includes typefaces from TypeBank and its group company Jiyukobo.
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
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}};
Glyph Support & Stylistic Filters
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