日本語

“Yuji” are 5 series of fonts in which the original characters written by the calligrapher Yuji Kataoka are typefaced. There are 3 different types of Kana and 2 different types of Hentai kana (the former style of kana) fonts. Lern more.

This Fonts are licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.

• Latest release

It has tradition and dignity, but is also approachable. This design can be widely accepted by the general public. Kanji characters and some symbols are the same as Mai and Boku.

• Adobe Standard
  • Adobe-Japan 1-3
    • List of unaccommodated CID
      • 99-107, 109-121, 123-230, 323, 325, 423-502, 514, 599-632, 8009-8010, 8015, 8057, 8059-8060, 8091, 8102-8111, 8152-8153, 8155-8157, 8159-8164, 8166-8182, 8184-8185, 8187-8190, 8192-8196, 8205, 8210, 8215-8218, 8224, 8227-8228, 8230-8263, 8268-8269, 8271-8283, 8324-8326, 8718-8719, 8818-8826, 8828-8840, 8842-8949, 9042, 9044-9083, 9263-9264, 9275-9779, 12870
• Default Glyph Style
  • JIS2004
• GF Latin Core

It expresses a free, unrestrained, emotional beauty. The Latin alphabets were written to match the kana strokes.

• Same character set as “Syuku”
  • Kanji and some symbols are identical to the “Yuji Shuku”.

It is a new and joyful design. It has both simplicity and warmth.

• Same character set as “Syuku”
  • Kanji and some symbols are identical to the “Yuji Shuku”.

The current Hiragana was prescribed in 1900. The rest of characters, which hadn’t been elected as Hiragana, are called Hentai kana. There are several types of Hentai kana, and Akari and Akebono are two of them. Katakana is not included in Hentai kana. Latin alphabets are designed only in capital letters. The lower-case letters are in small caps.

• Supported character types
  • From “あ U+3042 ” to “ん U+3093 ” with out Yōon and Sokuon.
  • The Typeface of Hentaigana is recorded in the character code of Hiragana.
• GF Latin Core

To build the binary font files from source, you need to have the fontTools, glyphsLib, ufo2ft, and ufoLib2 libraries.

Please refer to build.py for details of the build process.

Send suggestions for changes to the Yuji project maintainer, kiryumi, for consideration.