Yu-Minchotai was developed around the key concept of “Creating a typeface for composing novels.” Hardback and paperback novels are the target use. Yu-Minchotai combines modern style kanji (ideographic) characters with consistent visual sizes and standard traditional kana characters, which is rarely seen in other typefaces.
Jiyukobo was established in 1989. It has been developing high-quality typefaces for a wide range of businesses, including SCREEN’s Hiragino Fonts; Yu-Minchotai and Yu-Gothic under Jiyukobo’s own brand, both used in macOS and Windows; as well as Dainippon Printing’s Shueitai and Toppan Printing’s Toppan Bunkyutai. Jiyukobo has worked consistently to both preserve and drive forward Japan’s typographic culture. In 2019, it became a member of the Morisawa group.
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.
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JISX0212
Specifies additional characters that are less commonly used in Japanese, including 5,801 kanji, many of which are common with JIS X 0213, along with a couple hundred additional symbols.
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JISX0213
Includes JIS X 0208 as a subset, and specifies additional characters that are used in Japanese, including 3,695 kanji and several hundred additional kana, punctuation, and symbols.
Adobe Standard
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Adobe-Japan1-7
This font supports the glyphs described in the glyph set standard finalized by Adobe in 2004, ensuring support of JIS X 0213:2004 and completing support for JIS X 0212-1990. It also includes the horizontal and vertical ligatures for the new Japanese era name "Reiwa" (Unicode code point U+32FF).
Default Glyph Style
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JIS2004
Uses the JIS 2004 glyph variants by default. Example:
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How to Use
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