TsukuMin LB

ちょうどいい文字を、最適な価格で！

About fonts

As a full-fledged Ming typeface for long Text, it follows the essence of the era of typesetting and phototypesetting, and is a typeface that has been carefully designed to give maximum consideration to what a Ming typeface should be. Even in offset printing, it has a unique atmosphere that makes it possible to see the ink pools of type.
Distinguishing itself from the wide-ranging Ming-style kanji and kana fonts, this font retains the "stretch of space inherent in the characters themselves" and the "elasticity of the lines." When the characters are arranged, they create a rhythmic, comfortable readability.

Weights LB and RB are typefaces in which not only the vertical strokes of the relatively thin weight of "TsukuMin" but also the horizontal strokes are thickened. They are not simply bold types of weights, but "black types" that appear to be the same Weight as the corresponding weight when printed in white on a black background (background pattern). This is one solution to the problem of blurring of horizontal strokes when using white Mincho fonts in multi-color offset printing by simply making the weight thicker. When used on a white background, the gray density of the paper becomes darker, creating an effect similar to that of a type with a lot of ink applied.

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designer

Shigenobu Fujita

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Details

How to read
Tsukushi Mincho
Font maker
Fontworks
Foundry
Fontworks
Language:
Japanese
category
Mincho
standard
JIS X 0213: 2000
Character Sets
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file size
11MB
OpenType function
Character width Half-width metric (halt)
Kerning
Proportional metrics (palt)
Vertical type width half-width metrics (vhal)
Vertical pair kerning (vkrn)
Vertical Proportional Metrics (vpal)
Typesetting / decomposition (ccmp)
Any ligature (dlig)
Fraction (frac)
Single-width double-byte character (fwid)
Kana for horizontal writing (hkna)
Mono-width half-width character (hwid)
Italic
JIS2004 character shape (jp04)
JIS78 character shape (jp78)
JIS83 character shape (jp83)
General ligatures / standard ligatures (liga)
Modified glyph (nalt)
Standard print font (nlck)
Proportional kana (pkna)
Proportional glyphs (pwid)
Monospaced quartet (qwid)
Glyph for ruby
Superscript (sups)
Old font (trad)
Monospaced triplet (twid)
Vertical type (vert)
Kana for vertical assembly (vkna)

Glyph

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OTF TTF
AJ 1-6 AJ 1-5 AJ 1-4 AJ 1-3
Pr6 Pr6N Pr5 Pr5N Pro ProN Std StdN
L ● ● ● ● ● ●
LB ● ● ● ● ● ●
R ● ● ● ● ● ●
RB ● ● ● ● ● ●
M ● ● ● ● ● ●
D ● ● ● ● ● ●
B ● ● ● ● ● ●
E ● ● ● ● ● ●
H ● ● ● ● ● ●

Ligature

  • General ligatures / standard ligatures (liga)
  • Glyph depending on context (calt)
  • Any ligature (dlig)

letter

  • Small Caps (smcp)
  • Uppercase small caps (c2sc)
  • Swash-shaped (swsh)
  • Design variations (salt)

Number

  • Lining number (lnum)
  • Old Styles numbers (onum)
  • Proportional number (pnum)
  • Monospaced numbers (tnum)
  • Fraction (frac)
  • Superscript ordinal notation (ordn)

Set of designs

  • Design set 01-20 (ss ##)

Glyphs with different widths

  • Proportional glyphs (pwid)
  • Proportional metrics (palt)
  • Proportional kana (pkna)
  • Single-width double-byte character (fwid)
  • Mono-width half-width character (hwid)
  • Character width Half-width metric (halt)
  • Monospaced triplet (twid)
  • Monospaced quartet (qwid)

Culturally different glyphs

  • JIS78 character shape (jp78)
  • JIS83 character shape (jp83)
  • JIS90 character shape (jp90)
  • JIS2004 character shape (jp04)
  • Old font (trad)
  • Glyph for ruby
  • Kana for horizontal writing (hkna)
  • Standard print font (nlck)
  • Modified glyph (nalt)
  • Italic

Vertical writing function

  • Vertical pair kerning (vkrn)
  • Vertical type (vert)
  • Vertical Proportional Metrics (vpal)
  • Vertical type width half-width metrics (vhal)
  • Kana for vertical assembly (vkna)

Other

  • Kerning
  • Typesetting / decomposition (ccmp)
  • Localized glyphs (locl)
  • Superscript (sups)
  • Subscript

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