Fontworks Inc. has added the Round Gothic font to its lineup of lightweight fonts for embedded devices such as game consoles, home appliances, IoT devices, in-vehicle devices, and medical devices.
In embedded devices such as game consoles, electronic books, printers / multifunction devices / digital cameras / video cameras, IoT devices, vehicle-mounted devices, medical devices, etc. It was common to use bitmap fonts that have a light load on the CPU and memory. However, in recent years, along with the higher definition of displays, there is a tendency to attach importance to user interface design design such as beauty of characters displayed on devices. Therefore, in high-specification embedded devices, the use of outline fonts that are capable of drawing multiple display sizes such as enlargement / reduction with a single font and are capable of displaying beautiful characters is becoming widespread.
On the other hand, depending on the medium / low capacity embedded device, there are severe restrictions on the resources that can be installed. Therefore, there is also a problem that the installed fonts must be limited to low capacity fonts.
In response to the demand and issues of fonts installed in today's embedded devices, Fontworks has developed lightweight fonts that are beautiful and have low capacity. We offer round Gothic type after Square Gothic type.
Fonts for embedded devices "Fontworks Embed Types"
Light font product overview
As built-in fonts for low-capacity devices, we offer two types of lightweight fonts that can be selected depending on the application and the environment of the embedded device.
The first is the lightweight font "Type-S," which has a font capacity that is about half that of the basic outline font.
The base font was highly rated as Universal Design (universal design) for "visibility" and "readability"." UD Marugo_Large "Was adopted, and was particular about the legibility and beauty of the character design. Although the font capacity has been reduced, it is as beautiful as the base font.
Since "Type-S" is provided in TrueType format, there is no need for a font engine to display, and scalable and beautiful display is possible regardless of the drawing area of the device. You can easily unify the character design on multiple devices such as "wearable devices" and "smartphone apps" that work together with them.
Lightweight font (Type-S) Product overview
| Product name | Type-S series |
|---|---|
| Font name | TypeS-UD Marugo_Large-L TypeS-UD Marugo_Large-B |
| Base font | UD Marugo_Large L/B |
| capacity | L = 2,285KB (base font compressed to 46%) B = 2,047KB (compressed from base font to 53%) |
| Font type / Format | Outline font / TrueType font * Since it is provided in TrueType format, it can be displayed without a font engine. |
| Character Sets | JIS X 0208 |
| encoding | unicode |
| Use | For middle- and high-specification embedded devices such as game consoles, e-books, home appliances, in-vehicle devices, and industrial devices |
| price | Contact Us us |
The second is the lightweight font "Type-XS," which is a lightweight version of the lightweight font "Type-S." The font capacity has been reduced to about 1/4 of the outline font that is the base.
Similar to "Type-S", the base font was evaluated for its high Universal Design (universal design) for "visibility" and "readability"." UD Marugo_Large "Adopted. It has a beauty comparable to that of base fonts.
* "Type-XS" is provided in a unique font format, so a font engine for displaying is required.
Lightweight font (Type-XS) Product overview
| Product name | Type-XS series |
|---|---|
| Font name | TypeXS-UD Marugo_Large-L TypeXS-UD Marugo_Large-B |
| Base font | UD Marugo_Large L/B |
| capacity | L = 1,284KB (compressed from base font to 26%) B = 1,067KB (compressed from base font to 27%) |
| Font type / Format | Outline font / original format Since it is provided in a unique format, "FW font engine" is required for display. |
| Character Sets | JIS X 0208 |
| encoding | unicode |
| Use | Low-specification embedded devices such as IoT devices, medical devices, e-books, printers, multifunction devices, digital cameras, video cameras, in-vehicle devices, etc. |
| price | Contact Us us |
For screen display or printing for various embedded devices Font engine For correctly displaying Language with complicated writing rules such as Thai, Hebrew, Arabic, etc. on the embedded device. Layout engine Are also available.